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But agriculture and food processing industry want a stable supply of workers, not people they will train and then leave as soon as their old jobs reopen leaving the farmers back in the same position
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I can’t speak for the agriculture and food processing industry (obviously) but several producers I know have appealed to furloughed locals and have had a good reaction. Not sure if numbers will be quite enough. It must be relatively messy to organise.
They’d usually rely on mostly European (many Romanian) pickers I think.
miro_o
Even unpaid volunteer work?