Every year, I stand in my family's orchards, worrying if we'll have workers to pick the 6 million pounds of apples or if they will rot on the trees.
  • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    9 days ago

    But the farmers want to only pay people for that month

    Pretty sure the orchard operators don’t get prepaid for their apples either so they’re put into a situation of paying their workers from money saved from the previous year’s harvest or through taking out loans. Somebody else besides the farm operator is going to have to foot the bill for paying each worker 20~25k a year US for a month’s work.