Better yet, invest in machines that can do the picking instead of relying on illegals.
This is very intensive, hand picking, back breaking work.
Not condusive to machinery.
Excellent idea. Excellent idea. John Deere or Caterpillar should be able to figure out some good machines for these crops.
Well, duh. All the years of farm subsidies have taught nothing? When they were paid to NOT overproduce? And now they’re crying foul?
They can’t have it both ways. I’ve seen the failure stats and more and more family farms are being bought and sold to corporations because, yeah, they’re expensive to run.
I’d like to know why we import stuff from Mexico and Chile, if there’s so much produce in California!