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Re: O/T Dairy Help
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Posted by jdemaris on March 30, 2007 at 17:18:30 from (66.218.13.171):
In Reply to: O/T Dairy Help posted by rrlund on March 30, 2007 at 14:41:47:
I wonder what's different there, then here in New York. Hiring farm help is getting close to impossible. Can't hire kids in the summer anymore for haying. And, to get anybody full-time for barn work means the pay and benefits have to exceed what welfare/medicaid hands out. Most people collecting those benefits get better healthcare and dental-work than people that work for their money. My neighbor retired early and quit dairy farming last year - mainly because he could not get help unless he paid twice what he was making himself. The largest dairy-farm in town built tenant housing and has a bunch fo Eastern-European migrant workers. Another ex-dairy farm nearby has a new owner raising certified organic beef - and also has tenant housing with migrant Eastern European and Mexican workers.
Now, again - I'm in central New York - dairy farming area. I don't know why it's different in your part ofMichigan, but it hasn't appeared to be that way in areas I've been to lately. I just got back from Posen - a potato farming area in Northern Michigan - lower Peninsula. I was also up to Paradise, Newberry, and Grand Marais in the Upper Peninsula. Been looking to buy land, and was kind of hoping prices would drop because of the Detroit cut-backs. But, if anything, prices have gone up - and in some areas, Realtors tell me there is MORE money being spent, not less. Perhaps due to the many early retirements and employee buy-outs.
Maybe parts of Michigan don't give away taxpayers money as freely as here in NY?
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