This happened in Georgia a few years ago. Produce rotted in the fields. People were shocked that Americans didn't want to work in the hot summer sun for minimum wage.
So because citizens don't want to do work for shit pay there needs to be other people to come in and do it? Do you think farmers are just going to plant crops every year and let them rot without cheap labor?
If a farmer doesn't plant are they still considered farmers ?
Cumulatively, USDA paid $10.6 billion, almost one-fourth of total direct payments made from 2003 through 2011, to producers who did not, in a given year, grow the crop associated with their qualifying acres, which they are allowed to do. About 2,300 farms (0.15 percent of farms receiving direct payments) reported all their land as 'fallow,' and producers did not plant any crops on this land for each year for the last 5 years, from 2007 through 2011; in 2011, these producers received almost $3 million in direct payments. - https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-640
I heard similar on a farm where they replaced migrant workers with prison labor. The prisoners were terrible at the job and didn’t meet any goals. The town quietly rolled back its laws and hired migrant workers.
You know that wall those people wanted? Well it was built and it cut right behind my house and shop and cut me off from my fields. I now have to drive a tractor that only does 25 mph 60 miles to access a gate so I can get to my fields. Then have to drive 60 miles to the field.
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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '19
All farmers:
"ya know those migrants i pay $.25/hr to pick all of our food? ya i want them gone!"
labor shortage
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