Farms Facing Worker Shortage for Harvest

Yahoo ^

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

(1) Automate

(2) Raise wages

(3) Consolidate

(4) Lobby Congress to change tax and labor laws

(5) Die

[cripplecreek]

The veggie farm near me doesn't seem to have any problem hiring local help. He say his business has increased due to his pro American stance.

[ccmay]

Howzabout we get some chain gangs out there, instead of loafing in air conditioned comfort watching TV on my tax dollar?

-ccm

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

[taxed2death]

How stupid can farmers be?

Raise the pay rates until you get the required help.

Let the market decide.

[FreePaul]

If J. Allen Carnes would send a couple of busses to Houston he could pick up two hundred workers by going to just a few intersections around town. That is if he really needs them and is not just spouting propaganda for the continuation of illegals flooding across the border.

[Chode]

send the WelfareRats to work there and if they refuse, kick their useless asses off the public teat...

[kenth]

J. Allen Carnes needed 200 workers for the onion harvest this year on 500 acres of South Texas fields. The onion business is big in the area, and with only two months to harvest, there's little room for delay.



Self Propelled High Volume Onion Harvester

Just a quick search... I think this model can pick up to 25 acres a day, which would equate to about three weeks of the two month window this guy has.

[cripplecreek]

That's another good idea. When I was a kid we lived in a house surrounded by farmland owned by the Southern Michigan prison in Jackson Mi.

Granted it was primarily to feed the prison but excess was sold to the public. We used to stop at a vegetable stand run by inmates all the time. These days the taxpayers feed the inmates.

[technomage]

You forgot one:

Use people on Welfare! Bus them in if you have to, but get them to do some work.

[Hazcat]

Boy! You really are an extremest. You expect farmers to run their fields like a business? No hand outs? No breaks? WOW! (/s)

[FUHRER2112]

How stupid can farmers be?

Not all farmers are stupid, but the stupid ones are used to the phrase, "Pork, it's whats for dinner." If they don't have an ever increasing subsidy then they are dead in the water.

[VOA]

J. Allen Carnes needed 200 workers for the onion harvest this year
on 500 acres of South Texas fields. The onion business is big in the
area, and with only two months to harvest, there's little room for delay.

Dear Mr. Carnes,
Would you please come to Mid-Missouri and take back all the illegals
that appeared this summer to repair roofs (that were damaged in March)?

Their Texas-tagged trucks are taking up too much curb space and
we're getting a bit tired of the overdose of ranchera music.

And we don't like the 63% increase we've had in car thefts this summer.
Of course, our liberal university town (Columbia) is a sanctuary town,
except the city fathers won't say anything about this out loud.

[tcrlaf]

Whaaaaaa.....
Invest in one of THESE:

Weening Brothers Mfg Inc. fabricates several types of harvesters for produce such as; onions, potatoes, ginseng and more.

We build a wide variety of Onion harvesters each with different feature depending on the customer's requirements.

Onion harvesters are available with mechanical or hydraulic drives or a combination of both. Shown below are a few of the Onion harvesters we have built, some discharge into boxes directly on the harvester while others feed onto wagons. Sizers can be mounted directly onto the harvester as well to eliminate small unwanted product and discharge it back into the field.

Cab mounted electric over hydraulic control panels can also be design specifically for each harvester.

Onion Harvesters are custom built to suit each individual customer requirements.

http://www.weeningbrothers.com/field.html#onion

[Elyse]

(2) Raise wages

Really, the farmer that said he lost $150,000 puzzles me. If he needed 300 workers, but only got 100, what part of that 150,000 loss would have gone to pay those 200 people that didn't show up? It sounds to me like he made money without those people showing up.

[brownsfan]

Free Market says if no one will do the job at the wage you pay, you aren't paying enough. Right?

[LadyNavyVet]

You hit the nail on the head, EEE. I guess farmers with a poor business model are America's newest "victim" class.

[BW2221]

It's cheaper for the American tax payer to pay 15% more for produce (because of higher wages) than to pay the cost of supporting millions of illegal aliens.

[snowsislander]

The bill would provide temporary legal status for farmworkers who can prove they worked at least 100 days during a certain period. The workers could apply for a green card if they work an additional 360 days in agriculture over the subsequent six years.

We are going to give out green cards to people who work a total of 460 days in agriculture over six years?