Posted 1/28/2017 19:02 (#5800850 - in reply to #5800734) Subject: RE: Will the border wall effect labor for vegetable/livestock farms much?
SW “Ohia”
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.
Will the border wall effect labor for vegetable/livestock farms much?
