Thread: How this garlic farm went from a labor shortage to over 150 people on its applicant w

Originally Posted by Text Driving Is Deadly

The cost of picking produce is a very small part of the cost of the produce. I don't know about garlic but consider oranges. If you pick one orange every 12 seconds that is 300 per hour. If you give the workers a $3 raise that is a penny added per orange.

Then they should be eager to pay $25 per hour since it doesn't affect the bottom line. You apparently didn't read the part: "Garlic also requires a lot of human labor to harvest, package and roast, so the farm has an incentive to keep its workforce intact."