SALINAS -- When John Steinbeck was writing about California agriculture in the 1930s, the state was still years away from becoming the perennial number one farm state in the nation, a position it has held now for more than 50 years. Farm labor contractors were unheard of, and the notion of driverless tractors would have seemed like a bizarre episode of "Flash Gordon."And while conditions for farmworkers have improved greatly over the years, as well, they are far from ideal. At the annual Cal/OSHA
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