Getting farm labor has always been hard, I don’t know how many times we have hired guys who quit in less than a week because the work is too hard.
I am a woman and I have done all that hard work that they couldn’t do so I know we’re not asking that much and we have always offered a fair wage.
The only people around here who choose full time farm jobs over welfare and food stamps and a little seasonal work are the older guys from the 1986 amnesty.
Ditto.. farming work can leave you exhausted at the end of the day. When I was 16, I worked irrigation systems on the cornfields of a friend of the family in the summer of 1973.. it kicked my a**, but I found getting out there and working the fields to be rewarding nonetheless. It`s something every teen should experience.