r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 6h ago

so MAGA farmers chased off immigrant farmworkers because Trump said they were taking American jobs, now they can’t find anyone to pick their crops. Funny how the pick-yourselves-up-by-the-bootstraps crowd suddenly needs someone else to do the work

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u/flip69 5h ago edited 4h ago

Oh you think that big farms are close to residential areas?

They are not close to metropolitan areas where people need the fruit. The nearest farm will take me far too much in gas EVEN IF I HAD THE TIME TO SPARE to pick fruit.

Those locals to the farm will have sauce till next year.

The rest of us are screwed
You’re dreaming and I don’t want to go back to the 1930’s with the migrant mother and her 3 children starving in a tent.
So much for the failed economist Peter Navarro and his insane economic trade policies I hate the fact that he was from here like so many other GOP / trump crazies.
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u/Pineapplepizzaracoon 3h ago

Also they would need to be in a tourism path or have something desirable.

No one is getting excited to go pull low quality mass farmed tomatoes.

Truffle hunting or picking a basket of apples in a quaint little country village is novel. Photo ops in canola or sunflower sure.

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u/qqererer 1h ago

Google maps doesn't even begin to show how far away and in the middle of nowhere a majority of these fields are.

They're typically far far away from major highways and pock marked by tiny tiny towns where farmers live.

You almost have to zoom in to max level before you see any resemblance of a neighborhood, or small town if you're lucky.