Farmers rush to get foreign workers before wheat harvest.

Because it's no 9 to 5 job, it can involve actual work when stuff goes wrong, all things people avoid like the plague these days.

"Some" workers in that industry would prefer to collect 600.00 per week from the feds,while also collecting 3-500.00 per week depending on which state we are talking about for a total of 900.00 or possibly more per week risk free without working. Which would you choose while this Covid 19 is going around? Think about it......it could possibly be one of the reasons that they can`t find workers right now.

I think they saying (workers) Not (truckers)

if you are truck driver don't worry, let the farmers run their business

they know what to do, I will be worry if they import wheat from Foreing country

I do respect the american Farmers they are our partners, god bless them .

I always heard there's a tax break for the business that hires visa workers. Maybe they get reimbursed half the salary or something.

Fake news they are not hiring foreign workers.

President Reagan said it best: "Government is not the solution , government is the problem".

Maybe if your government paid bail out money to actual farmers instead of share holders in a farm company, they might come close to being able to afford to hire american workers but i doubt it.

Dale: Beleive it or not there is a way around the law that says you can`t sell meat direct.

21 U.S. Code § 623.Exemptions from inspection requirements
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(a)Personal slaughtering and custom slaughtering for personal, household, guest, and employee uses
The provisions of this subchapter requiring inspection of the slaughter of animals and the preparation of the carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products at establishments conducting such operations for commerce shall not apply to the slaughtering by any person of animals of his own raising, and the preparation by him and transportation in commerce of the carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products of such animals exclusively for use by him and members of his household and his nonpaying guests and employees; nor to the custom slaughter by any person, firm, or corporation of cattle, sheep, swine or goats delivered by the owner thereof for such slaughter, and the preparation by such slaughterer and transportation in commerce of the carcasses, parts thereof, meat and meat food products of such animals, exclusively for use, in the household of such owner, by him and members of his household and his nonpaying guests and employees; nor to the custom preparation by any person, firm, or corporation of carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat food products, derived from the slaughter by any person of cattle, sheep, swine, or goats of his own raising, or from game animals, delivered by the owner thereof for such custom preparation, and transportation in commerce of such custom prepared articles, exclusively for use in the household of such owner, by him and members of his household and his nonpaying guests and employees: Provided, That in cases where such person, firm, or corporation engages in such custom operations at an establishment at which inspection under this subchapter is maintained, the Secretary may exempt from such inspection at such establishment any animals slaughtered or any meat or meat food products otherwise prepared on such custom basis: Provided further, That custom operations at any establishment shall be exempt from inspection requirements as provided by this section only if the establishment complies with regulations which the Secretary is hereby authorized to promulgate to assure that any carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat food products wherever handled on a custom basis, or any containers or packages containing such articles, are separated at all times from carcasses, parts thereof, meat or meat food products prepared for sale, and that all such articles prepared on a custom basis, or any containers or packages containing such articles, are plainly marked “Not for Sale” immediately after being prepared and kept so identified until delivered to the owner and that the establishment conducting the custom operation is maintained and operated in a sanitary manner.

A good example would go like this.

You have four people that would each like to OWN a quarter of a beef. They in turn enter into an agreement to become 1/4 OWNERS in the animal.

When it comes time to slaughter the animal since they are the owners you can leagally consumate the slaughter under the CUSTOM exemption in the federal law and there would be no federal inspection of the meat required. BINGO: Done deal. Try it and you may open a new avenue to sell your product.

Dale, it's called "the animal share act" and was passed in March and is to be put into effect in July.

https://reason.com/2020/04/04/novel-new-wyoming-law-lets-local-ranchers-sell-cuts-of-meat-directly-to-consumers/

its not really the farmers it the custom cutters...The white farmers from South Africa been doing this for years.....Most crews are small town boys from KS, OK, NE, Dakotas when ya get down to it...