Re:People are planting more vegetable gardens
by jnwatson on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:45PM
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The short term outlook for produce is fine. However, the medium term outlook doesn't look good. It is unclear where the supply for farm labor will come from for the rest of the year. The border with Mexico is locked down.
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Re:People are planting more vegetable gardens
by clmul on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @03:57PM
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Given that because of quarantine measures a lot of people have little or no work to do at the moment, that might be a potential source of farm labor (which is mostly unskilled labor anyways)?
Re:People are planting more vegetable gardens
by vkou on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @07:13PM
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Canada is not enforcing border closures against temporary foreign farm workers.
The US may be about to discover what a combination of its immigration enforcement policies, combined with its unwillingness to pay farmhands wages that Americans can live on, will result in.