How do we convey message that we must have a steady, mobile workforce to harvest perishable products?
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agchat:
Q6 via @BenLaCross How do we convey message to people that we must have a steady, mobile workforce to harvest perishable products? #agchat
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mpaynknoper:
RT @agchat: Q6 How do we convey message to people that we must have a steady, mobile workforce to harvest perishable products? #agchat
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McLerranMD:
Q6Social Media as a key to this endevor - people in America need to see true life stories of how much work goes into their food #agchat
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samvance:
Q6 advertise it as exercise for the youth. Valuable hands on experience and earn money at the same time. #agchat
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kmrivard:
Q6 Scare 'em. I know plenty of suburbanites that think their delicious fruit magically appears in the produce department. #agchat
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agchat:
RT @samvance: Q6 advertise it as exercise for the youth. Valuable hands on experience and earn money at the same time. #agchat
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roarfarms:
Q6, COOL I'd think would help, then raise price on product to reflect actual production cost #agchat
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samvance:
Q6 What about a Farm Corps? Youths join and work the land in the summer and fall and farmers have a network of help to select. #agchat
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AgriBlogger:
Q6 We're doing it here. Lots of farm groups sending out message. Seems like emotion is dominating national interest though. #agchat
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Cottonaggie:
Q6 We tell our story daily & regularly and we don't ever stop. And we teach Econ101 over again to Americans. #agchat
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AgriLawyer:
Q6 Monster.com with good pay and benefits, treat it like a trucking job which is interrelated with perishable commodities. #agchat
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kmrivard:
RT @Cottonaggie: Q6 We tell our story daily & regularly and we dont ever stop. And we teach Econ101 over again to Americans. #agchat
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agchat:
RT @Cottonaggie: Q6 We tell our story daily & regularly and we dont ever stop. And we teach Econ101 over again to Americans. #agchat
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jordanmcraig:
then ppl would stop buying RT @roarfarms: Q6 COOL Id think would help, then raise price on product to reflect actual production cost #agchat
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agchat:
RT @McLerranMD: Q6 SM as a key to this endevor - people in America need to see true life stories of how much work goes into food #agchat
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kmrivard:
Q6 Farmboy's mom once sent a thank you card to the farm listed on the container for her Ranier cherries once...just sayin' lol #agchat
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SlowMoneyFarm:
Q6 detassling crews draw youth; seems still mixed results. #agchat also could do working 'vacations' but not all cut out 4that
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SlowMoneyFarm:
Q6 if people are hungry enough they will work; no options for welfare there's no choice #agchat
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Cottonaggie:
Q6 Plus since Ag has celebrity status to some degree, take them to Yuma where 30,000 workers are needed daily and make our fans work #agchat
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kmrivard:
Q6 We can try as hard as we can to encourage folks to get out there and work, but it still comes down to disdain for labor. #agchat
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kmrivard:
@samvance Q6 I feel like you're making excuses for the people who are unwilling to do demanding physical labor... #agchat
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McLerranMD:
RT @kmrivard: Q6 We can try as hard as we can 2 encourage folks 2 get out there &work, but it still comes down to disdain for labor. #agchat
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AgriLawyer:
Q6 I'm not as pessimistic about American's willingness to do hardwork as there are many spheres that hard work can be done. #agchat
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mpaynknoper:
@samvance Q6 Yes, people should be able to choose, but manual labor needs to be integrated as choice, not snubbed. #agchat
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agchat:
Couple more minutes on Q6, then we'll move on to Q7. Great job this evening; really enjoying the different perspectives. #agchat
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girlmeetsfarm:
RT @kmrivard Q6 Farmboy's mom once sent a thank you card to the farm listed on the container for her cherries once just sayin' lol #agchat
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kmrivard:
Q6 As someone who's relied on welfare...the exploitation of the system and resentment towards hard work angers me to no end... #agchat
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AFBFMace:
Q6 Even with attractive wages, statistics show that workers choose lesser paying jobs over farm labor jobs. #agchat
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Cottonaggie:
RT @AFBFMace: Q6 Even with attractive wages, statistics show that workers choose lesser paying jobs over farm labor jobs. #agchat
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jsamuelson56:
Need to be able to charge a price & have some1 pay- unrealistic RT @AgriLawyer Q6: If you pay and provide benefits, they will come. #agchat
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Porkchop1950:
Q6, if you collected 325 on unemployment, catching food stamps, subs housing. Q, would you work for 10 an hour for 40. Thats the ? #agchat
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jordanmcraig:
RT @AFBFMace: Q6 Even with attractive wages, statistics show that workers choose lesser paying jobs over farm labor jobs. #agchat
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kmrivard:
@samvance Q6 If you understand what it's like to be the "mule" then I don't get how you think everyday people should be exempt. #agchat
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girlmeetsfarm:
Q6 I think that agriculture needs to be more of a career path right from a junior school level. #agchat
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SlowMoneyFarm:
Q6 welfre shouldn't be an employment in itself #agchat Hand up not hand out; 30s-40s grandmother helped some
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ketelsen:
Q6 we pay and provide benefits and yet no one comes..and when they do they can't hack it. #agchat
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AgriLawyer:
Q6 I have seen people try to get on the system as well, I was a collections lawyer - saw plenty that busted their tail as well. #agchat
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jsamuelson56:
RT @AFBFMace Q6 Even with attractive wages, statistics show that workers choose lesser paying jobs over farm labor jobs. #agchat
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_sistahsweet_:
Q6 There is such a disconnect between the farm and the plate that it doesn't register that someone has to pick our food. #agchat
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AgriLawyer:
Q6: Obviously compensation has a lot to do with getting people to go down into a mine in one of the most dangerous jobs in America. #agchat
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AgriLawyer:
I feel bad, I don't even know what question Q7 is, hence my continued rambling on Q6 #agchat
agchat: Q6 via @BenLaCross How do we convey message to people that we must have a steady, mobile workforce to harvest perishable products? #agchat
farmanddairy: RT @agchat: Q6 via @BenLaCross How do we convey message that we must have a steady, mobile workforce to harvest perishable products? #agchat
mpaynknoper: RT @agchat: Q6 How do we convey message to people that we must have a steady, mobile workforce to harvest perishable products? #agchat
McLerranMD: Q6Social Media as a key to this endevor - people in America need to see true life stories of how much work goes into their food #agchat
agsalesman: RT @agchat: Q6 via @BenLaCross How do we convey message to people that we must have a steady, mobile workforce to harvest perishable products? #agchat
jsamuelson56: Q6 That's the bottom line! Hmmmm... #agchat
billiegirltoo: RT @mpaynknoper: RT @agchat: Q6 How do we convey message to people that we must have a steady, mobile workforce to harvest ...? #agchat
JPlovesCOTTON: Q6 Sducation & dialog are important on this & many other ag topics. #agchat
AgriBlogger: Q6 We're doing it here. Lots of farm groups sending out message. Seems like emotion is dominating national interest though. #agchat
Cottonaggie: Q6 We tell our story daily & regularly and we don't ever stop. And we teach Econ101 over again to Americans. #agchat
AgriLawyer: Q6 Monster.com with good pay and benefits, treat it like a trucking job which is interrelated with perishable commodities. #agchat
jordanmcraig: then ppl would stop buying RT @roarfarms: Q6 COOL Id think would help, then raise price on product to reflect actual production cost #agchat
SlowMoneyFarm: Q6 detassling crews draw youth; seems still mixed results. #agchat also could do working 'vacations' but not all cut out 4that
benlacross: Q6 we cant discriminate #agchat
FairFoodFight: RT @samvance: Q6 What about a Farm Corps? || It's happening in the sust ag world. Good model: http://cropmob.org/about #agchat
Porkchop1950: RT @SlowMoneyFarm: Q6 if people are hungry enough they will work; no options for welfare theres no choice #agchat
JeffFowle: RT @mpaynknoper: @samvance Q6 Yes, people should be able to choose, but manual labor needs to be integrated as choice, not snubbed. #agchat
ComfyPaws: RT @billiegirltoo: RT @AgriLawyer: Q6: If you pay and provide benefits, they will come. #agchat
girlmeetsfarm: RT @kmrivard Q6 Farmboy's mom once sent a thank you card to the farm listed on the container for her cherries once just sayin' lol #agchat
_sistahsweet_: Q6 There is such a disconnect between the farm and the plate that it doesn't register that someone has to pick our food. #agchat
ranchwife4life: RT @_sistahsweet_: Q6 There is such a disconnect between the farm and the plate that it doesn't register that someone has to pick our food. #agchat
