When native unemployed people are referred to North Carolina Growers Association (NCGA), they're almost without exception hired; between 1998 and 2011, 97 percent of referred applicants were hired. But they don't tend to last. In 2011, 245 people were hired out of 268 referred, but only 163 (66.5 percent) of the hired applicants actually showed up to the first day of work. Worse, only seven lasted to the end of the growing season . . .

It seems clear that it would take a quite large increase in agricultural wages to get native workers to do these jobs, an increase that could very well put the farms in question out of business . . .

North Carolina needed 6,500 farm workers. Only 7 Americans stuck it out.

@ http://www.alipac.us/f9/carson-%96-%...k-jobs-323305/