“The U.S. dairy industry absolutely cannot survive without this,” said Dale, a dairy farmer who has moved toward robotic milking to avoid the labor problem.
Funny, the dairy industry survived just fine without Illegals fro quite a long time.
But now we are supposed to believe something magically changed?
I worked on a dairy farm. Mostly field work but did often help with feeding calves and other stuff.
But now we are supposed to believe something magically changed?”
Actually several things did change. The population increased as have the markets. When my generation was growing up we didn’t have yogurt, particularly 500 flavors of it. Farmers also had large families. TV, advertising and the internet were introduced. Would appear that no one gave much thought to the issue of what it would take to meet the demands for new products.
A solution would be to ship people from large cities that currently receive unemployment off to areas that need employees. Lots of young bucks that could fill these jobs. Either work for a living or starve!
It wasn't magic it was the welfare state. Why bust your ass on a farm when you can collect the same check sitting on your couch?
” Funny, the dairy industry survived just fine without Illegals fro quite a long time.
But now we are supposed to believe something magically changed?”
Yeah, what changed is that dairy farmers became whores, like so many other industries. Americans be damned!
I suspect that what has changed ‘i.e. is changing, is that there is more interest in becoming very rich along with all the others from Obamas down. With all this going on within the US economy I wonder how much of this kind of problem other nations are having. As a specific point does Canada have these labor problems.