 The fruit is already ripe, Stoller says, and if they didn't work during the heat wave, the farm would end up with thousands of pounds of fruit that couldn't be sold. Stoller wouldn't allow interviews with most of the workers. He says they're hired by a third party and that their contract doesn't allow them to speak with the press. The crew's foreman, Rigoberto Ibarra, was allowed to speak with me. The 69-year-old has been working in the fields of the Central Valley for more than 50 years.