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Many Agricultural Workers Still Can’t Get COVID Vaccine as Growing Season Begins Farmworkers lay straw as a mulch for young tomato plants in Long Island on June 26, 2015. Education Images / Universal Images Group via Getty Images By A key group of essential workers in New York State are strangely still unable to get vaccinated: farmworkers. As of March 10, anyone 60 years and older can sign up for the vaccine in the Empire State. Grocery, restaurant, delivery workers and other “public-facing” employees in various nodes of the food industry have been eligible since late February. But farmworkers — including those milking cows, feeding chickens and picking tomatoes in close quarters inside greenhouses — are still not among those who may sign up for vaccination. Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, an associate professor of food studies and nutrition at Syracuse University, argues that this is nonsensical. “There’s really no job that could be more essential

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