A Day without Mexicans

[Vrenn]

Who said you were entitled good tasting steak?

I did. If you haven't made the same demand you should be a veggin.

 

[Vrenn]

Grow Without Pedro

Try doing it for a couple of hundred years, when we got along fine without farmworker invasions.

Don't look for the MAGAts to make it passed 6 weeks.

 

[marvin martian]

Don't look for the MAGAts to make it passed 6 weeks.
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"Passed"...lol

 

[DigitalDrifter]

The key here is, are they here legally.
If not, they need to go, and there's no excuse for hiring illegal labor.
I don't give a shit if the lettuce and tomatoes don't get picked, there's no excuse for illegal labor.
Put the employers in jail, and deport those that are here illegally.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

If you are referring to the H2-A and H2-B visa programs, they are still in effect!

The H2-A visa is for seasonal agricultural workers and there is no cap on the number that can come in temporarily to work. H2-B visas are for seasonal temporary non-agricultural work and they are capped, but we could raise or lift the cap on them too.

So there's literally no need to let illegals stay here. Deport them all and bring in seasonal temporary workers who get paid the prevailing wage, get free housing and food, and then go home!!!

This is why mechanical harvesting is so popular. No food is provided, no breaks to eat. What once took days is done in hours. The savings in worker's compensation insurance alone pays most of the rental for the harvester.

 

[Vrenn]

This is why mechanical harvesting is so popular. No food is provided, no breaks to eat. What once took days is done in hours. The savings in worker's compensation insurance alone pays most of the rental for the harvester.

I have worked the Cherry Picking job as a teen long before machines were created to do most of the work. The Mechanical Pickers (like other fruits growing on trees) is harvested by shaking the tree and the fruit falls into a canvas catching basin. It works but it also leaves 1 out of 3 fruit still on the tree or bruised. Farmers would much rather use human harvesters as there is more profit even if they have to pay them more. Now, why is the humans getting so expensive (leaving out immigrant status)? It's back breaking and dangerous work. Nothing has changed. That three legged 50 foot ladder is still used. Why are human harvesters still preferred? A professional harvester can bring in more than 3 times the output you and I can. In fact, when you pit one of those people directly against a mechanical harvester and the humans that have to come in and clean things up, the human harvester, in fruit picking, wins hands down.

4 Labor-Intensive Crops Farmers Wish They Had Robots To Harvest​

The only one of these 4 not dominant here is Peppers which California leads the production in the US.

Yes, some day, if things keep going like they are, mechanical pickers will be the prevalent method but not today. Things have worked out so well in the last 200 years that there has been no need to push the research and development of the Mechanical Pickers. Don't look for it to get much better in the next couple of years.

Later on, I will cover what the real underlying cause of the lack of today's immigrant workers.