"The group left the farm in Michigan after only a week.
The labor was slow, and growers quickly complained that the cucumbers grew faster than the boys could pick them and got too big to pickle.
'That’s a truckload of garbage I’ve got,' Hank Keytylo told the Detroit Free Press that August, pointing to a load from his 20-acre cucumber patch.
'I’ll get $50 for the whole truckload,' Keytylo said. 'Any other years, I’d get $150 for a truckload.'
Meanwhile the boys, stunned at the living conditions and the backbreaking work in fields from Michigan to Texas to California, complained."
~ Petula Dvorak
"When the U.S. tried to replace migrant workers with high-schoolers" - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025/07/21/bracero-migrant-workers-farm-labor-department/
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