Well, it was bound to happen I guess. Funny how there’s no mention of wages which currently range from minimum wage to pennies above minimum wage. Not a problem if you give them (foreign workers) a shack to live in and have the taxpayers subsidize the wages. Some such farms are now big business with the big ones buying out the quotas of the small ones. Farm products such as milk and eggs are heavily regulated here and operate under a quota system. No need to buy out the little guy completely, just buy the quota with borrowed money. The barns will fall down on their own. The agriculture college mentioned in the article has been around for decades and would be well versed in the need for people to take out a student loan to participate in a program that helps you get set up in a minimum wage job that will make it impossible to pay back those loans. Loaning big money to farmers so they hire qualified folks who will be unable to pay back loans. Where have we heard this before? Kinda sounds like the current farmers who borrowed big money in the past in hopes of cashing out someday with enough left over to retire after a hard working life of “getting by”. That’s how it works here now. Everyone betting on the future while the banks are in control. Jeepers, this type of consolidation would never happen in any other industry would it? Just as an aside, a local egg farmer sold his quota as part of a divorce settlement. He received $9,000,000 for it. The company that bought it is allegedly worth hundreds of millions.
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