Apples!

In our part of the world, we grow allot of apples. During harvest season, allot of help is needed to get the apples off of the trees and on to trucks.

An apple farmer said during a recent interview that he did not have enough help to harvest the Apples and that if more workers did not show up on his farm as well as the rest of the Apple Farms, that 1/3 of the Apple crop will be lost.

That farmer shared that he has not seen a Caucasian on his farm looking to work the harvest in over two decades. There was a small group of immigrant workers there working at getting the crop in and the farmer shared that he is paying $150 per person per day to help with the hard work of picking apples. Yet he did not have enough people working and no one answering adds to come and apply for the jobs.

I’ve learned that some farmers have resorted to import prison inmates at $20 per hour.

Yet, 100 or so miles away, people were protesting, marching around holding signs that said things like “we need jobs” “we are the 99%”.

So, that tells me that either these folks with the “we need jobs” banners, already had a job, did not want one or, more likely wanted someone to find the job for them, then bring up on a serving plate.

I believe the jobs are out there if you are willing to go for it.