End unemployment and other government handouts and they will have plenty of labor.
Free market solution.
Labor is a commodity and is subject to the laws of supply and demand.
Half the homes in the United States are receiving government aid of some kind...
Duh.
If we want workers, we have to change society so that those people who do not work will end up with miserable (yes: miserable) lives.
We insist on being nice. We just don't want anyone to suffer. We want everyone to be "equal" -- and then we look around and wonder why so many people just don't see any reason to make much of a contribution to society. Why make an effort? What's the point??
In case it's not clear: higher wages for farm workers MIGHT attract some more labor, but that misses the point. Some people just don't care about the wages. They enjoy the fact that they don't need to work. An incentive to work isn't going to change them. A disincentive for sitting on their ass -- that would change them real quick.
MECHANIZE!
Put up a DARPA type contest fund to the school or company that can come up with a mechanical cherry harvester.
Same for Tomatoes (Should be easy, designs were nearly ready when Kali. pulled funding).
Or bring back the chain gangs.
Either way, eliminate “migrant labor” and the reliance on illegals.
Are there no prisons? Are there no union work houses?
“There won’t be enough farm labor in Wahington!”
The media follows up onm it’s earlier Big Lie:
“There won’t be enough farm labor in Georgia!”
Of course they’ll never report that everything worked out in Washington just like they never reported that everything worked out in Georgia.
It’s not their job to inform, the big money is in hysteria and manipulation- that’s what their audience: advertisers- pay for.
yeah, because they are all driving garbage trucks, roofers,repairing roads,working in supermarkets,lawn care business owners,cab drivers,gas stations attendants/repair,..and if you check, in larger municipalities as school maintenance/janitorial services, casino employees....so stick your asparagus stalks...
I am sure San Joaquin County has a welfare office and issues food stamps...there is a ready pool of labor....and they do not have to travel like Okies did...should be right around a country corner...
I don’t even mind if they continue to collect food stamps, wages being what they are and farm work being temporary...but it gets done, this way...
Get rid of the labor laws that don’t allow kids to work!
Santa Rosa, California, early 1960”s, the fall school opening was delayed because the prune orchards were harvested by high school kids!
there are a lot of unemployed Americans out there, you might have to pay them at least minimumwage though.
If your business expanded due to illegal labor being used, then your business should contract for the same.
Anyone on govenment welfare should be first in line to help.
That’s what teenagers are for.
AS many have noted in here send some of the able bodied ones currently getting welfare and already in Calif
BUT one thing these lying Libs NEVER mentione there is an UNLIMITED visa for agri workers, as many as one needs. NO limit
so all this whining is just that
whining
Maybe asparagus shouldn’t be grown in America then. Let Mexico do it and we’ll import it. Because it is NOT worth the long -term costs of illegal alien anchor babies and the billions of dollars in welfare, food stamps, education, incarceration and health care they consume every year.
Look at California, who shuts off water to some of the most productive land in the country unless they're trying to cause the price of food to go up? They want the crops to go unharvested to less will be grown next year, it drives up food prices which just cries out for Federal regulation of food distribution to ensure "fairness". Besides, why let food go to where people are buying it rather than where the Fascist Democrats want it to go?
Liberal morons. They’re giving the illegals direct welfare payments, food stamps, subsidized housing, free medical care, and free education. Why on earth would they pick cherries in the hot sun?
send in the National Guard and conscript the unemployed and pay them minimum wage. Anyone who fails to perform loses the job and unemployment benefits - what a great idea elpadre!!!!