Farmers across the country have the same complaint: they don't have enough workers.

John Rosenow and his wife Nettie run a mid-sized dairy farm in western Wisconsin, where 18 employees milk 700 cows, three times a day.

"We cannot operate with fewer people," said Rosenow. "Once one person is short, it seems like we don't get the work done."

Keeping the farm staffed is a constant challenge, according to Rosenow. He says Americans just don't want to do farm work.

"Over the last 10 to 15 years, I've probably had 150 people apply for a job here," he said. "Two of them have been Americans, and those two are just fulfilling a need for their unemployment to apply for a job."

In fact, about 70% of American farmworkers were born somewhere else. More than 40% of that workforce is in the coun

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