Originally Posted by
Nightsky
On a related note, anyone else see in today's USA today the article on illegal immigrants in the Dakota's? It had a blurb on how one dairy operator was having a hard time operating as he couldn't even attract illegal immigrants to the job - for 30K a year!!! Jesus - what has become of our profession that we do this for 20K? We are our own worst enemy.
That's probably because other farmers are willing to pay more elsewhere. As opposed to the airlines where they ALL pay pretty much the same. So were all screwed unless we could all step up and let them know how disgraceful it is to have this kind of job and get paid so little.