I've always paid 8.00 for general farm labor and 10.00 for harvest help. Last few years 10.00 won't get anyone interested. Most farmers are gearing up to do it all by themselves or with one family member because of this. 45 foot header on a combine. Semi truck with a pup hauling 1500 to 1800 bu per trip. Grain cart on tracks will hold 1200 to 1500 bu. Cart and combine will fill the truck for a quick second trip to town. Competent farm kids work for dad or make big money somewhere else. Competent city kids are too smart to do hard work. Mostly they don't know how to put in the effort. Whats left? Whiners and wheezers and know it alls. Last guy who said he'd help me at harvest wanted 15.00 per hour. Half again more than the normal rate in our area. Ok by me. I'll pay it if it keeps the wheels turning. Have you ever run a combine? No. Have you ever run a semi truck? No. Have you ever run a tractor? No. A grease gun??? No. Ok so your going to help me how??? And charge me 15.00 per hour to do what??? If he could have done any of those jobs competently, I'd have paid him 20.00 plus meals. I'm not going to pay top dollar to have someone wreck my stuff on a learning curve. Nobody can afford that. What I would rather do is put a 9 year old farm girl in a tractor and grain cart and pay her 5.00 per hour until she doesn't need a baby-sitter. Once she can unload a cart on her own and I not worry about dents on a truck, then she'll get 8.00 and it only goes up from there. She will listen to every instruction you tell her. She will remember every warning about things she needs to know. She will ask questions. She will be respectful. She will be appreciative. She will be careful. She will learn fast. She will do it your way, the way you taught her. The guy who wanted 15.00 and can't do jack...he won't listen because he knows it all. He'll wreck your combine because he won't turn the radio down so he can hear the machine run. He'll take your truck to town and won't come back because he either sleeping, talking to neighbors or stopping at the cenex for a coffee. If you put him in the tractor and grain cart, he'll constantly be on the move driving all over the field, taking the long route, wasting your fuel and compacting your soil because he won't listen to the simple instruction of unloading on the go as your moving TOWARD the truck at the end of the field, not be loaded on the other end of the field and be a half mile away with a loaded cart. After writing this, I've just realized I'd rather pay the 9 year old girl 15.00 and the experienced know it all 5.00 and all would be right with the world.
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