Trump's deportation vow spurs California farmers into action

[TexasTowelie]

Days after Donald Trump won the presidential election vowing to deport millions of people in the country illegally and fortify the Mexican border, California farmer Kevin Herman ordered nearly $600,000 in new equipment, cutting the number of workers he'll need starting with the next harvest.

Herman, who grows figs, persimmons and almonds in the nation's most productive farming state, said Trump's comments pushed him to make the purchase, larger than he’d planned to buy otherwise.

“No doubt about it,” Herman said. “I probably wouldn't have spent as much or bought as much machinery as I did.”

Others in California's farming industry say Trump's tough campaign talk targeting immigrants in the country illegally — including a vast number of farm workers — spurred them into action, too.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-farmers-deportation-20170105-story.html

[safeinOhio]

1. Fruit and veggie growers across the country

were hurting last fall because of a lack of labor.

Looks like we'll have to by all of our fruit and veggies from Mexico.

[TexasTowelie]

2. It's either that or we will have to start paying Americans

real money to do the backbreaking labor in agriculture. In either circumstance the price of food is going to increase. Tie that in with the increase in fuel prices and the paychecks are going to be spread much thinner.

[Starry Messenger]

3. Unfortunately they might turn to leasing prison labor instead