Not for $6-8/hr or less. At $15-$20 though, you could get legit labor.
Not for $6-8/hr or less. At $15-$20 though, you could get legit labor.
Nope they wont work for that either. And that pushes expenses up above the level of return and we loose money and go out of business so no one gets any bacon.
Not necessarily.
We would be classified as a "small farm" and have paid seasonal labor $15 an hr for the past 3 years, $13 before that. No way possible to pay unskilled labor $20 and hr. and still make a profit. Every year it's increasingly difficult to find workers, much less reliable ones. We hear the same story from all the producers. Anybody that wants a full time job, has one. The workforce that's left has all sorts of reasons for not working, I suspect just not wanting to and being able to live off of someone in the family who does work.
We hire no illegals, and have never gotten a government subsidy of any kind. The Chinese tariff on our product was 22% which has been raised to 47%. Probably a third to a half of our crop has gone to China the past few years. We await to see if that kills their market. If it does, I doubt the American consumer can/will take up the slack. If a glut develops and prices fall below production cost then it'll be a "lost" year.
That said....I support what the President is doing. Something had to be done about the trade imbalance and unfair practices.