Posted by John in La on May 31, 2015 at 06:48:15 from (96.33.136.54):
In Reply to: Traditional Farmer posted by larry@stinescorner on May 31, 2015 at 05:45:19:
And what comment is that? The one where he said.....
You mean no one local is willing to work for next to nothing Right?
Or the other one......
They could get plenty of US citizen help IF they would pay a decent wage.
Or even.....
The other option is for the farmer not to have more land than he can handle the crops on.
I can agree in a perfect world we would not need to bring in foreign labor. H2A works are paid over $10 a hour by law; get free housing; electricity; water; sewerage and transportation to the work place. What does that equate to; $15 or $20 a hour?
So I would say the farmers are willing to pay; unless you do not think $15 a hour for unskilled labor is not enough.
By Traditional Farmer's thinking we should have NO employees in the U.S. If farmers should have a place small enough they can handle it with only family help then everyone should play by those rules. No truck drivers that work for companies; No nurses to help the doctor; When you build no general contractor just hire each trade person separately.
And how about Traditional Farmer getting off that tractor and cutting all that hay with a swing blade sickle. A fruit crop needs to be picked by hand so all farmers should have to harvest all crops by hand to be fair since we can not get any outside help.
The problem is not local workers willing to work for next to nothing. The problem is locals are not willing to work at all.
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