Posted by kyplowboy on May 08, 2009 at 06:19:39 from (98.67.17.158):
In Reply to: Migrant Farm Workers posted by wkfarmall on May 07, 2009 at 22:51:57:
Go to the state employment office, that is where they advertise to be able to qualify for H2A programs. I only raise about 3 acres. My family is not able to help get that in the barn any more. I hired 7 people last year durring cutting and housing. Two only "worked" two hours, one got "sick" and the other "remembered" he had a job interview that day and had to leave but would be back. Both needed their money before they left. Have not seen them since. I cut about 300 sticks late one day before going to my 12 hour night shift job, figure'n on getting it up the next morning after me and the 3 guys who were come'n got a few wagons unloaded. One guy showed and at 8 his wife called with a tooth ache and he had to take her to the Dr. I had to run to a neighbor's house and bum 3 wagons to get it all up before dinner on my own. When you have migrant help, that crap don't happen. The only way to get help to hang around durring tobacco cutting is if you know some one who works at the jail, you can get a few guys on work relese. For good help, I will pay $10/hour cash. 15 years ago around here people were paying $6 hour and would have all kinds of folks with good factory jobs show up after work to make a little side money, those days are over. The last 10 years I have had two good friends that are brothers, both had factory jobs one on 1st one worked 3rds. One would come out in the afternoons and the other would come out and work every morning. Now they are both in the coal mines, I don't figure I will ever get them to help me again. I don't blame them, we are still good friends, but if I was bring'n home $1,200/week I would not make good barn help myself. 15 years ago when I was in high school most of the boys worked in tobacco after school. Now good luck find'n a school kid that wants to work or his parent's will let him, they all have to play sports so they will grow up big and strong and get their name in the county paper. Now about the only help I can count on show'n up is a 63 year old man up the road that has worked in tobacco his whole life, it's all he knows and as long as I give him a few cokes and feed him dinner he is as happy as he can be, only thing is he don't care how high in the barn he gets as long as he has one foot on the ground. I did have a woman who helped strip some this winter, she said she wants to help in the field this summer. Don't know how that is going to work out but her girlfriend says she is more of a man than I am so we will see. My grandmother turned 79 a month ago, when she is the best help I have times are pretty rough. This will be her 61st crop and keep saying she is going to retire, we will see about that too. Only bad thing about me and her is she can not hand up any more,,,,,,
Dave
Oh, and if wk does stand for west KY, email me. If you are close to Tilden your hired!
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