Posted on 09/14/2010 5:40:51 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Peter Gregg, speaking for New York Farm Bureau, said there’s more paper work and it is more time-consuming.
“The government has made it worse by an added level of bureaucracy and red tape,” he said.
The program now requires farmers... spend hours filling out nearly 10 forms and applications (four forms are new this year).
(Excerpt) Read more at syracuse.com ...
I'd love to know who these farmers sell to so I know who not to buy from!
It’s apple picking time so the sob stories have to come out...
Let the farmers also pay for all the public assistance that these workers require.
You want to import labor, pay for all the costs associated with it instead of dumping the costs on the backs of taxpayers.
That head of lettuce isn’t looking like that much of a bargain now is it?
The replies on this thread prove otherwise.
You want to import labor, pay for all the costs associated with it instead of dumping the costs on the backs of taxpayers.
Amen to that.
That head of lettuce isn’t looking like that much of a bargain now is it?
It never was. At least where I am, food prices go only in one direction, up. Any "savings" realized by the farmers for using illegal labor certainly did not make it back to my pocket, and that doesn't even factor in the tax money I pay that is used to pay for welfare for the farmer, or for public services for the illegals.
I gre up next to an apple orchard, and I vividly remember the year that the farmer who owned it started using Mexican labor to pick the apples. That was the same year that my grandfather was forced to sit out back by our sheds with a shotgun, lest we be robbed blind. The very first day of picking season, he had gone around back to get some tool or another and found half-a-dozen Mexicans in our tractor shed helping themselves to our gasoline.
I say we all stop eating American produce, they are all just getting rich off of the government and charging higher prices. We should grow our own or import produce from Mexico where they have all the pickers they need.
As the article that you didn't read states, he advertised the jobs in three states and got two applicants. One man who didn't take the job and a woman who worked weekends for a while.
I say we all stop eating American produce, they are all just getting rich off of the government and charging higher prices. We should grow our own or import produce from Mexico where they have all the pickers they need.
It sounds like there must be few unemployed people in upstate New York these days. Otherwise, there would be a ready supply of farm labor that would make migrants unnecessary. /s
Who said anything about hiring men and women? Doesn’t this farmer live in a rural community where there are boys? My friends and I picked apples for $5 a day every fall until I was 14, when the migrants came.
Only the easily led claim that.
We've had legal endless chain immigration for years now...It's way past time to reform legal immigration..
Ya don't drag in more people when ya have millions unemployed.
Kinda of a no brainer.
Exactly!
For what it’s worth, I read the entire article . . . so there’s at least one other person on this thread.
There are plenty of unemployed who can pick food for wages.
There are plenty of unemployed who can pick food for wages.
And I say he is lying either that or he was offering slave wages.
I lived in upstate New York, there are plenty of unemployed but they are clustered in towns and have no reliable transportation to get to these remote farms. What was the farmer offering, a place to stay until the harvesting was done? What were the wages? Also the harvesting season depending on the orchards and crops is only about 6 to 8 weeks or so across the region before the hard frosts hit in November and the upstate farming region is huge. Pumpkins and root crops such as potatoes can be harvested into november or so.
In some ways the farmers brought the situation on themselves in that by planning their financials around cheap labor to maximize profits, they minimized spending on more efficient farming methods and mechanization. Also the state and counties have such high taxes on property and income that the farmers find themselves in a tight squeeze. So they try to skimp on labor wages (and because of the small families now a days, they can’t rely even on their children to give them a hand). Now even migrant labor is in short supply.
Famine is coming!
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