JoeSpareBedroom wrote:

In some places, the poll is a pretty good indicator of the lack of a
labor pool available to farmers.

What poll? You still persist with the notion that the labor pool is about
kids when that is not the primary workforce.

Where I live, we're 10-30 minutes
from lots of farmland. Kids drive that far to work at malls, golf
courses & restaurants, so distance isn't an issue. They just see farm
work as alien to them.

Not in our area. But, once again, this has nothing to do with kids. They do
not provide the primary pool of agricultural laborer.

Small apple orchards here tend to use local
help, but the biggest ones still use imported labor, some of it
illegal.

Central Washington is the largest apple producer in America. The orchards
are not small, even the 'mom and pop' operations are large. As I stated
before, farmers have the ability to pull in all the legal temporary migrant
labor they need -- which is the issue. Those who choose to hire illegals are
doing so for a cheap labor pool and to evade accountability. I hope to god
that farmers who break the law are busted big time.

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Dave
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