Wages rise on California farms. Americans still don’t want the job

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Wages rise on California farms. Americans still don’t want the job
Solorio is one of a growing number of agricultural businessmen who say they face an urgent shortage of workers. The flow of labor began drying up when President Obama tightened the border. Now President Trump is promising to deport more people, raid more companies and build a wall on the southern border.
But the raises and new perks have not tempted native-born Americans to leave their day jobs for the fields. Nine in 10 agriculture workers in California are still foreign born, and more than half are undocumented, according to a federal survey.
It's time to revisit the issue of illegal workers from Mexico and points south, but, of course, that won't happen.
 
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It kind of touches on an earlier thread we were discussing about mechanisation - it just needs the right incentive and catalyst I guess.
But there are owners who make money employing legal migrant ag workers.
So if the others can't how do they afford machines ?
More to this than meets the eye.
 
But there are owners who make money employing legal migrant ag workers.
So if the others can't how do they afford machines ?
More to this than meets the eye.


Get ready to pay more for your veggies then, and don't whine when you do.

However, there are two points to this story that are being overlooked. The first one is:

"Today, farmworkers in the state earn about $30,000 a year if they work full time — about half the overall average pay in California. Most work fewer hours." This also begs the question what is "full time"?

Then there is this:

"But the raises and new perks have not tempted native-born Americans to leave their day jobs for the fields."

Why quit a job to go work in the fields for what appears to be equal pay, or less pay?
 
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