> “If there’s no immigrant labour, there’s no milk, no cheese, no butter, no ice cream,” the dairy farmer said. “We’ll all have to go vegan.”
Hire the locals and enjoy $50 ice cream. Just as Allah intended.
anothercar on
Wisconsin doesn’t do e-verify huh
I wish these farmers who went on-record saying that they run farms with undocumented workers, would also go on-record about whether they pay these workers above or below minimum wage
amainwingman on
Highlights:
>The moves [immigration crackdowns] have gone down well with Trump’s base. But business groups are expressing concern about the impact they will have on the agricultural sector, which they said could not function without immigrant labour.
>The dairy industry is particularly vulnerable. Produce growers can recruit legal seasonal workers to harvest fruit and vegetables, under the H-2A visa programme for temporary farmhands. **But there is no such system for dairy farms, which require workers to milk cows three times a day, all year round.**
>…
>But Rosenow questions whether there are any native-born Americans who would be prepared to work on his farm.
>He said he was at his “wits’ end” before he started employing foreign workers in 1998. The turning point was an incident in the 1990s when a US-born worker turned up for a job he had advertised. “All these cans of beer fell out when he opened the car door,” he said. “I rang one of his references and he said he’d never hire him back.”
>…
>According to Daniel Ortega, a food economist at Michigan State University, **some 40 per cent of the 2.4mn farmworkers in the US are unauthorised to work.** “They play a critical role that many US-born workers are either unable or unwilling to perform,” he said.
>That is borne out by statistics. According to a survey carried out by the National Council of Agricultural Employers in 2020, **just 337 US-born workers applied for the 97,691 season agricultural jobs advertised between March and May that year.**
> As a result, any move to deport undocumented labourers en masse would have a **“significant impact on the US food system” and “increase the cost of producing food”,** Ortega said. **“Instead of bringing prices down these policies will drive them up.”**
>…
>In Wisconsin, which voted for Trump in 2024, some farmers support his immigration agenda, despite their reliance on precisely the kind of workers the White House is targeting.
>“Do I believe that we need to control our border? Absolutely,” said one Republican-voting Wisconsin dairy farmer, **who declined to give his name.** “Do I believe we need immigration reform? Absolutely.”
>“Trump is good at bringing a problem to the fore that needs to be resolved, and if he’s as good as he says he is, it will be resolved.”
>…
>“These people show up every day, responsibly and reliably do the hard work that others don’t want to do, and yet they’re constantly accused of being rapists, murderers and drug-dealers,” he said.
>Over on the Rosenow farm, Kevin Tecpile admits to being disappointed by what Trump’s victory says about America. **“It’s been a surprise to see how much racism there is in US society,” he said. “They just don’t seem to appreciate us.”**
velvet_gold_mine on
Waow
!ping SOYBOY
GenericLib on
You mean Americans don’t want to live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere for a job with shit pay? If only someone could have foreseen this
Doom_Walker on
WE FUCKING TOLD YOU.
Oh but they are “Democrat slaves” you idiot cons said.The same conservative farmers that are the ones who use immigrant labor because they are too cheap to hire Americans.
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Trump is doing more to help America go vegan in 2 weeks then PETA has done in 40 years
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> “If there’s no immigrant labour, there’s no milk, no cheese, no butter, no ice cream,” the dairy farmer said. “We’ll all have to go vegan.”
Hire the locals and enjoy $50 ice cream. Just as Allah intended.
Wisconsin doesn’t do e-verify huh
I wish these farmers who went on-record saying that they run farms with undocumented workers, would also go on-record about whether they pay these workers above or below minimum wage
Highlights:
>The moves [immigration crackdowns] have gone down well with Trump’s base. But business groups are expressing concern about the impact they will have on the agricultural sector, which they said could not function without immigrant labour.
>The dairy industry is particularly vulnerable. Produce growers can recruit legal seasonal workers to harvest fruit and vegetables, under the H-2A visa programme for temporary farmhands. **But there is no such system for dairy farms, which require workers to milk cows three times a day, all year round.**
>…
>But Rosenow questions whether there are any native-born Americans who would be prepared to work on his farm.
>He said he was at his “wits’ end” before he started employing foreign workers in 1998. The turning point was an incident in the 1990s when a US-born worker turned up for a job he had advertised. “All these cans of beer fell out when he opened the car door,” he said. “I rang one of his references and he said he’d never hire him back.”
>…
>According to Daniel Ortega, a food economist at Michigan State University, **some 40 per cent of the 2.4mn farmworkers in the US are unauthorised to work.** “They play a critical role that many US-born workers are either unable or unwilling to perform,” he said.
>That is borne out by statistics. According to a survey carried out by the National Council of Agricultural Employers in 2020, **just 337 US-born workers applied for the 97,691 season agricultural jobs advertised between March and May that year.**
> As a result, any move to deport undocumented labourers en masse would have a **“significant impact on the US food system” and “increase the cost of producing food”,** Ortega said. **“Instead of bringing prices down these policies will drive them up.”**
>…
>In Wisconsin, which voted for Trump in 2024, some farmers support his immigration agenda, despite their reliance on precisely the kind of workers the White House is targeting.
>“Do I believe that we need to control our border? Absolutely,” said one Republican-voting Wisconsin dairy farmer, **who declined to give his name.** “Do I believe we need immigration reform? Absolutely.”
>“Trump is good at bringing a problem to the fore that needs to be resolved, and if he’s as good as he says he is, it will be resolved.”
>…
>“These people show up every day, responsibly and reliably do the hard work that others don’t want to do, and yet they’re constantly accused of being rapists, murderers and drug-dealers,” he said.
>Over on the Rosenow farm, Kevin Tecpile admits to being disappointed by what Trump’s victory says about America. **“It’s been a surprise to see how much racism there is in US society,” he said. “They just don’t seem to appreciate us.”**
Waow
!ping SOYBOY
You mean Americans don’t want to live in the middle of bumfuck nowhere for a job with shit pay? If only someone could have foreseen this
WE FUCKING TOLD YOU.
Oh but they are “Democrat slaves” you idiot cons said.The same conservative farmers that are the ones who use immigrant labor because they are too cheap to hire Americans.
Trump is doing more to help America go vegan in 2 weeks then PETA has done in 40 years