The Farm Laborers Wage Board on Tuesday voted 2-1, as expected, to advance its report recommending that the overtime threshold for farm workers be lowered from 60 hours to 40 hours a week. Farmers have been outspoken against the drop, arguing it will cut into their already slim profit margins, while labor groups have been advocating for the change as a way to promote workers’ rights. With Tuesday’s vote, Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon now has 45 days to review the report and its recommendations and announce her decision. If the threshold takes effect the way the recommendation currently stands, farmers…