Red Paint - 1/28/2017 19:02

redoak,

H2A wage for Kentucky is $10.92 an hour.

You can hire locals for that, but they will be hideously unreliable. When we are chopping tobacco, that hand NEEDS to be there. That's the main advantage to migrant labor. Imagine you have 80 acres of lettuce that all needs picked; no screwing around, things HAVE GOT to role.

We don't hire migrants but I understand why some do. The paperwork alone is ridiculous. Does cutting still pay by the stick? I always though that's how tobacco labor was paid.