It's one of the biggest problems plaguing agriculture - finding and keeping staff | ABC News
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2023
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theyve tried everything except paying their employees more
its tough finding well trained, hard working, diligent workers who work cheap, stay in sub-standard accommodation and never complain..
I'm proud to be a farmer, ready to do farming any way in the world
This.
...and have nowhere to go, no social life, low chances of finding a partner and if they're lucky the best treat they'll get is some fish and chips as a gourmet experience plenty of companies won't ship actual civilisation to you.
Most of the farms I've been to pre-covid treated workers, especially backpackers and immigrants, like third rate, disposable items. The easy come, easy go mentality has to stop. Why would anyone choose to work and live in shit conditions if they can do better in the city?
I worked in horticulture in the 90s. The most lucrative year I had was 2001/02 when I made $16K working forty hour weeks. I didn't mind the work, but the pay was pathetic. In 2003 I switched to working in a warehouse.
@@DuckReach432There is a big difference between horticulture And agriculture, agriculture is more aagro, you couldn't handle it.
Buddy, I fed trees into a woodchipper for $9 an hour. I worked in vineyards (for free) and did dozens of other varied tasks. "Couldn't handle it" - get over yourself.@@Keepskatin
@@DuckReach432.Yes, but we don't have proof of how much product you helped produce, how much real work was produced, etc
I've done and currently do jobs you would likely quit in a day or two.
Try roofing work in Florida summer, Demolition without machinery, unloading 18 wheel trucks of furniture without air conditioning, picking through hot scrap metal to collect copper for the company on a conveyor belt, try working at a recycling plant poking heavy long metal rod up at clogged collector bins full of bery hot ash and , mercury, cadmium and other toxins in the ash, while you are in full body suit, hot and drenched sweaty.
You can't handle that type of work
Okay, I can see I'm outclassed. You hero.@@Keepskatin
Won’t anyone think of the conglomerates?
You either pay them a living wage or you don’t.
You’re welcome.
then food prices become more unaffordable. government needs to subsidize investment in machinery to increase productivity like the USA does.
Its nothing for a farmer to fork out $1.5m on a tractor but then expects them to work for $20k. If you invest in machinery invest in people too.
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Yes indeed. The middle men are taking too big a bite and the consumer is going to have to pay a more realistic price for fruit/veg. I don’t know if it’s same in Oz, but monsanto ,tyson and corporations like them are making it impossible for family farms to survive.
@@_robustus_ I would be quite willing to buy direct from the farm gate and often go to farmers markets
@@jonlatham7963 all going to be automated in future which is a good thing because it means less immigrant workers and more high skilled labour required. there is a company where i live in Queensland called swarm farm robotics they are making massive strides in the area of farming automation which the government needs to support. cheaper food is good for everyone.
"Well they closed the ag colleges".
_Have two boys that went to ag college but obviously worked out like most of us that it's an s-hole and life and money is better in the city. If you want workers you have to pay them very well to overcome the soulless drain of remote life. how's that for an idea_
100 to 200 workers short will always be a problem in capitalism! But in communal ownership of all things worldwide, that would either never be a problem, or would be a lot less of a problem because the pool of workers would be much larger, at least in the thousands if not millions of part time workers who don’t need to be paid a wage because communal ownership means all people own all things, so then there would be equal wealth and no wage system at all. If these people want to own their own farm, on which they have lots of work, rather than communal ownership, then they should expect to never have enough workers, and should do all the hard work themselves, working 24 hours a day, with no helpers.
And we shouldn’t eat as much meat if we want to be healthy, and raising far fewer cows etc would be better for the Earth, because of all the food the animals need to eat, which is why corporations are clear cutting all the rainforests to grow more food for ANIMALS, not for humans. And human food should be grown vertically, using less land, where humans never touch the food! True, I just saw it.
And humans should build and live only in TOWER cities connected to maglev Trains worldwide, to leave most of the ground for wildlife. Human encroachment is destroying most habitats for wild animals. In Africa each individual is forced to have small farms to grow their own food, until eventually there will be NO wildlife habitats! See how the T&T will be better for everyone and everything? And communal ownership of all things?
USA has been violently forcing all attempts at an alternative system to fail, and yet more poor people, entire nations, want communal ownership of all things, but AMERICA WONT LET THEM HAVE WHAT THEY WANT AND NEED. See ROGUE STATE by Wm Blum and many others at THIRD WORLD TRAVELER.
This is really insightful. Thanks
This is not a permanent solution. You need to bring in immigrants from poor countries and give them decent conditions to become a permanent resource.
Nor is that.