Farm owner: Without immigrants 'this town would die'

[Honeycombe8]

13. Size of farms

There's one difference. Most farms WERE smaller. The large scale farms these days are "corporate" farms, more than likely, and have put many small farms out of business. (Think WalMart.)

The smaller farms were family farms, and used family members extensively, and hired locally.

The big non-family farms are more about cheap labor, and less about the lifestyle and the community.

The dairy farm in the video seems more like a mid-sized family farm. How many workers does he need for a dairy farm, I wonder? Machines do the milking. So they would need workers to feed the cows, move 'em about, clean warehouses and barns, stock inventory. But no picking in the fields or anything we think of as typical farmhanding.

Anyway, I think many of the farms choose to hire the cheapest workers, who now happen to be undoc. immigrants. If they disappeared, Americans would appear to do the work....at increased wages. Just like they always did, and have been available all along. It will always be the case that you can hire an undoc. worker for a fraction of what you would have to pay a citizen (no matter the race or ethnicity of the citizen). I find it hard to feel sorry for businesses doing this.