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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 f
by jnwatson 7y ago
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.
- clmul 7y agoGiven 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)?
- vkou 7y agoCanada 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.