by Higgenbotham » Sat Apr 27, 2024 10:45 am
This is one of the largest strawberry growers in the nation. His field harvesters in Florida are on H-2A visas.
"It's the only means of getting workers at the farm right now", says Wishnatzki. "But it's totally outdated."
Even for a company as large as them, the cost has become crushing, he says.
They have to pay a recruitment company, visa fees, housing workers, pay for meals, and transportation.
Unless something changes soon, he says, "berries are going to become an item that's going to be a luxury, not something people buy every time they go to the grocery store like they do now."
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/26/12422366 ... wtab-en-us
They can point the finger at DeSantis all they want, but he's not the problem. In fact, he's more the solution than the problem. Farms will have to get smaller. People will need to grow their own. As featured yesterday, Americans who are around 60 years old and have never done a hard day's work in their lives will need to figure out how to do some instead of saying they can't.
[quote]This is one of the largest strawberry growers in the nation. His field harvesters in Florida are on H-2A visas.
"It's the only means of getting workers at the farm right now", says Wishnatzki. "But it's totally outdated."
Even for a company as large as them, the cost has become crushing, he says.
They have to pay a recruitment company, visa fees, housing workers, pay for meals, and transportation.
Unless something changes soon, he says, "berries are going to become an item that's going to be a luxury, not something people buy every time they go to the grocery store like they do now."[/quote]
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/26/1242236604/florida-economy-immigration-businesses-workers-undocumented?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
They can point the finger at DeSantis all they want, but he's not the problem. In fact, he's more the solution than the problem. Farms will have to get smaller. People will need to grow their own. As featured yesterday, Americans who are around 60 years old and have never done a hard day's work in their lives will need to figure out how to do some instead of saying they can't.