I was assured in 1974 by the Senate floor manager of the bill that this was not to be the case. but the Department has so administered the law. and the courts have supported that interpretation. Currently. the Department is registering as farm labor contractors: Citrus growers in Florida. fruit and vegetable farmers. corn and grain sorghum seed producers. cotton ginners. cattle feedlot operators. and nurserymen. just to name a few. We have even had a situation in Florida where three cultivators working a citrus grove were required to register because they took turns driving each other to work and thus were considered to be transporting migrant labor. I really do not think Congress had this in mind when we passed the 1974 amendments. The vague language and convoluted format of FLCRA have allowed the clear meanings of its key words to be subverted and the intent of Congress to be frustrated. It is important to remember that the whole debate and legislative history of the 1974 amendments revolve around the fact that farm labor contractors were abusing migrant farmworkers as well as failing to live up to their arrangements with farmers. packers. and processors. Congress enacted FLCRA in order to regulate crew leaders for the purpose of protecting not only migrant farmworkers but also agricultural producers. At no point in the House or Senate committee reports and at no point in the floor debates was there any assertion that farmers. processors. canners. packing shed operators. ginners. or nurserymen had been guilty of the kind of abuses those amendments were designed to correct. Neither do those committee reports nor floor debates express any intention to subject legitimate farmers. processors. or other fixed location agricultural employers to registration or to the substantive requirements of the act.