05 Aug
Got Workers?
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on the shortage of workers in the dairy industry.
GOT WORKERS? DAIRY FARMS RUN LOW ON LABOR
Here’s the money quote:
“Phil Martin, an agricultural economist at the University of California, Davis, says, ‘ I would suspect a whole lot of 18-year-olds prefer to work at McDonald’s for minimum wage than milk cows.’
On Mr. Souza’s 250-acre farm, people occasionally drop by looking for work. “Once Americans get the job description, they lose interest real quick,” he says. So six out of the eight employees are Mexicans. They deliver calves, milk cows and scrape manure.”