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Up To 75% of Farm Workers Not Showing Up

Up To 75% of Farm Workers Not Showing Up

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Ruh-roh! There are going to be empty store shelves and skyrocketing grocery prices soon, and much faster than I had guessed a couple months ago.

Just a small sample of the enormous crisis that is looming for the Nazi vermin infesting Washington DC, and for a certain orange convicted felon in particular:

Fear of increased ICE raids have already negatively affected the nation’s agricultural sector, causing alarm that food prices could skyrocket in the near future as a result of Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies.

Bakersfield, California, saw a massive drop off in the number of field workers showing up for work last week after Border Patrol agents in unmarked Chevy Suburbans rounded up and detained immigrants in the area, profiling individuals they believed to be field workers, reported CalMatters. The end result: acres of unpicked oranges roasting in the California sun at the height of the season.

“We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting,” Casey Creamer, president of the industry group California Citrus Mutual, told CalMatters. “This sent shockwaves through the entire community. People aren’t going to work and kids aren’t going to school. Yesterday about 25 percent of the workforce, today 75 percent didn’t show up.

Losing the bulk of America’s agricultural workforce overnight is a recipe for “absolute economic devastation,” according to Richard S. Gearhart, an associate professor of economics at Cal State-Bakersfield, who spoke with the nonprofit news outlet.

“You are talking about a recession-level event if this is the new long-term norm,” Gearhart said, arguing that the end result of Trump’s policies will be felt in the grocery store check-out lines across America.

https://newrepublic.com/post/190555/donald-trump-immigration-deportations-farm-workers

Thanks so very much, goosestepping Republican Brownshirts, for this delightful clusterfu​ck you've unleashed on the economy and its people, all so you can cosplay as Adolf Hitler mini-mes in your cat-sh​it-riddled sandboxes. Hey, look at it this way, if you rubes can't afford oranges at the local Piggly Wiggly, you can always suck Dear Leader's pestilent orange anus for your morning OJ.

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@Soothfast said


Thanks so very much, goosestepping Republican Brownshirts, for this delightful clusterfu​ck you've unleashed on the economy and its people, all so you can cosplay as Adolf Hitler mini-mes in your cat-sh​it-riddled sandboxes. Hey, look at it this way, if you rubes can't afford oranges at the local Piggly Wiggly, you can always suck Dear Leader's pestilent orange anus for your morning OJ.
I think you had a typo....Browns@its, is the correct spelling I believe.

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@Soothfast said
Ruh-roh! There are going to be empty store shelves and skyrocketing grocery prices soon, and much faster than I had guessed a couple months ago.

Just a small sample of the enormous crisis that is looming for the Nazi vermin infesting Washington DC, and for a certain orange convicted felon in particular:
[quote]Fear of increased ICE raids have already negatively affecte ...[text shortened]... he local Piggly Wiggly, you can always suck Dear Leader's pestilent orange anus for your morning OJ.
Do other States besides CA use many such workers? Neither Trump nor his voters will care if CA suffers.

How are the Kansas and Iowa agricultural sectors doing?

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@Soothfast said
Ruh-roh! There are going to be empty store shelves and skyrocketing grocery prices soon, and much faster than I had guessed a couple months ago.

Just a small sample of the enormous crisis that is looming for the Nazi vermin infesting Washington DC, and for a certain orange convicted felon in particular:
[quote]Fear of increased ICE raids have already negatively affecte ...[text shortened]... he local Piggly Wiggly, you can always suck Dear Leader's pestilent orange anus for your morning OJ.
I see this as a positive thing. It will force the farm owners to stop picking up people standing in front of Home Depot or wherever and actually hire regular employees at a decent wage.

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@AThousandYoung said
Do other States besides CA use many such workers? Neither Trump nor his voters will care if CA suffers.

How are the Kansas and Iowa agricultural sectors doing?
LOL. Other states eat fruit and drink orange juice, right? 😆

FYI, it is winter in Kansas and Iowa. There is no agriculture at this present moment. Please check-in in late spring for rhubarb. 😆

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@spruce112358 said
LOL. Other states eat fruit and drink orange juice, right? 😆

FYI, it is winter in Kansas and Iowa. There is no agriculture at this present moment. Please check-in in late spring for rhubarb. 😆
Florida provides that stuff. Do they use immigrant migrant workers?

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@AThousandYoung said
Florida provides that stuff. Do they use immigrant migrant workers?
Sun 22 Dec 2024 12.00 EST 😆

"Only 12m boxes of oranges will have been produced in Florida by the end of this year, US Department of Agriculture (USDA) forecasts show, the lowest single-year yield in almost a century. The figure is 33% lower than a year ago, and less than 5% of the 2004 harvest of 242m boxes."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/22/florida-orange-industry

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@Cliff-Mashburn said
I see this as a positive thing. It will force the farm owners to stop picking up people standing in front of Home Depot or wherever and actually hire regular employees at a decent wage.
As long as you're ok with the price of fruit to go up...

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@AThousandYoung said
Do other States besides CA use many such workers? Neither Trump nor his voters will care if CA suffers.

How are the Kansas and Iowa agricultural sectors doing?
No, California has the most undocumented agricultural workers:

The top five states hosting the largest share of undocumented agricultural workers are:

California (49 percent)
Washington (9 percent)
Florida (7 percent)
Texas (5 percent)
Oregon (4 percent)

However, then there's the construction sector, where Texas and Florida are right up there with California when it comes to hiring undocumented workers. Housing prices are going to go up at an accelerated pace when this source of cheap labor is "purged" from the economy, and the housing shortage will get worse.

And certainly there are numerous other economic sectors where undocumented workers are critical. The cumulative effects of The Purge is clear: a severe recession, and possibly a new depression.

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@AThousandYoung said
Florida provides that stuff. Do they use immigrant migrant workers?
DeSantis shipped all the immigrant workers in Florida to NYC. 😆

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As MacBeth points out, most consumer goods in the USA up to now were imported through California. Prices for clothes and other goods will also go up due to the tariffs.

At 16:07 to 16:43 MacBeth discusses this topic.

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@Soothfast said
Ruh-roh! There are going to be empty store shelves and skyrocketing grocery prices soon, and much faster than I had guessed a couple months ago.

Just a small sample of the enormous crisis that is looming for the Nazi vermin infesting Washington DC, and for a certain orange convicted felon in particular:
[quote]Fear of increased ICE raids have already negatively affecte ...[text shortened]... he local Piggly Wiggly, you can always suck Dear Leader's pestilent orange anus for your morning OJ.
ending slavery actually helped the economy…

https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/emancipation-may-have-generated-largest-economic-gains-us-history

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@Mott-The-Hoople said
ending slavery actually helped the economy…

https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/emancipation-may-have-generated-largest-economic-gains-us-history
It's the presence of undocumented workers in the US that is the real boon for the nation's economy. Throwing them out of the country is not the same thing, by a long shot, as emancipating slaves who subsequently stayed in the economy.

You need to pick your cherries with more care to better reinforce your alternate reality.

Or better yet, just be less intellectually dishonest with yourself, and save yourself the nasty surprises every time real reality comes knocking on your door.

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@Mott-The-Hoople said
ending slavery actually helped the economy…

https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/emancipation-may-have-generated-largest-economic-gains-us-history
They were given citizenship!

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Trump is a “highly successful” business man…he knows what he’s doing.🤣

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