If it were up to me I would allow the $11 per hour go as under the table untaxed pay.
It makes bookkeeping easier and cheaper for the farmer and the pay more attractive to the picker. The pickers will spend and generate revenue that way.
AH...you cannot do that....and survive...at least if you have any size farming operation.
Time to invent new robots
Paying under the table means unpaid payroll taxes, nor can you claim off the book labor as an expense.
It’s easy for the IRS to keep tabs on farmers, because it’s less than two percent of the population. They have a specialized set of skills and they will find you, seize all your assets and make you regret the day you were born.