Now that there are hardly any farm workers left, apart from a few foreigners,what are they all doing now?
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In my village area in Shropshire, there are no resident farm workers, they have all been turned out of their homes, tied cottages. Most, together with their families, have moved to larger areas where they have , after a long struggle, been housed by the local authority, away from the village. Most have secured jobs with the local authority where they are learning new trades, If truth be known they will probably be better off in the long run. All their homes have been sold, at outrageous prices to people who have made loads of money in the towns and cities. They have converted the cottages into luxurious homes, joined the hunt, dress in tweeds, have Range Rovers and think they are country people. I have been driven off the road by them more than once around our lanes. The local pub where we all used to meet is now akin to a snotty wine bar, I don't use it any more. So, my mates have gone, together with my childrens friends, to be replaced by jumped up snot gobblers who think they own the place, and foreign workers who live in caravans in fields. The country life has gone forever, God rest its soul.
We rent out our cattle ranch to Japanese business men who want to play cowboy. Bozeman Montana. They pay us to do the work -
Offer a living wage for farm workers so as to attract American citizens to work?
In the past two generations America has moved from being primarily rural to primarily urban.
The Dept. of Ag. is much more supportive of the large farm complex that has left small farms struggling. We lose a number of farms each week.
If you want to change it and change the nature of who picks your food--buy local farm products!
Buying property in the Baltic.
To the one above me who says buy local what do people in northern areas do in winter?Ever heard of rickets?Not big on history and the Mayflower I take it.We could import our produce which will more than triple the price of all goods.Wonderful,my union will seek better wages and America can pay for those too.Impact on economy as a whole will plummet.But that's too far reaching for some levels of education to understand.My 5th graders get it.
I must of missed the deportation of farm workers when did that happen?
Suffering.
They are all saving what money they have, and going back home.
In Idaho and Colorado they have convicts picking produce. Other places they are using the cumbersome H2B (UNLIMITED temporary worker program.) However, the H2B needs to be streamlined to some sort of preapproved registry, so that when farmers don't have people on Monday, they can be sending for people off of a list by Wednesday. Harvest time is short, and their addiction to illegal immigrant labor has put them in the habit of just waiting to see who shows up to pick. If people don't, it is too late to sign up the needed amount more, for a smaller farmer. It is the family farms I am more concerned with than agribusiness, where it pays them to pay for the H2B process. Still, as a security matter, I think we need to be able to grow our own food. I would just rather address it with an increased subsidy to pay above poverty level wages and high deductible health insurance, besides. We'd make the money back as taxpayers from the lower drain on our social services, anyhow.
Littlewaboose, 5th graders might be conned by superficial arguments, but we aren't. What a shame you are using a teaching position to indoctrinate children to your political point of view.
got better jobs with higher wages and not getting ripped off by greedy farmers who were bringing in cheep labour who are treated like surfs.paid less than i was paid as a 10 year old 2 shillings an hour 50 years ago spud picking.
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