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I live in the Midwest. In fact, I live in the middle of farm country. Every field around me is either corn or soy. There are no fields of tomatoes or cucumbers or lettuce here in the Midwest. It's all corn and soy as far as the eye can see.
So the question is, have YOU ever been to the Midwest?
south central Minnesota surrounded by sweetcorn, peas and potatoes
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40 miles away at my Dads place in Iowa we get all the cucumbers,cabbages etc that you can can up.....
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The Iowa/MN border county's are yugggg producers of truck crops.
P.S. Western MN is a leading area for beat production from which we make sugar by the truck load!
If tariffs on food from Mexico go up, and that affects food prices, more people will just simply not eat those foods. The only people it will hurt are consumers in the USA. Something else. Even though a majority of Mexico's exports go to the USA, Canada is 2nd. Canada might get more of those products from Mexico, and countries surrounding Mexico might get them. What would happen if we in the USA just stopped consuming those products?
I call BS.
Do we not have sufficient legal seasonal immigrants? These people (H-2A) receive the higher of federal or state minimum wage. They often pay for housing and rides out of that. I imagine they pay illegal workers less.
They could find seasonal workers if they tried and wanted to pay them legally.
I call BS.
Do we not have sufficient legal seasonal immigrants? These people (H-2A) receive the higher of federal or state minimum wage. They often pay for housing and rides out of that. I imagine they pay illegal workers less.
They could find seasonal workers if they tried and wanted to pay them legally.
Dude I live in a small row house in Philadelphia, and I work for a living.
There's no room in my living room to grow an avocado tree.
Then dont eat avocados. I buy them when they are on sale for 49 cents. I wont buy them when they are $1.99.
I like lobster and think rib-eyes but I cant afford to eat it every day so I eat a lot of chicken.
If I wanted to do all that I'd do it already. I have other priorities. I already garden but that's it.
I mean I could get a cow and some chickens too.
Wife has me building a chicken coop. I live next to the beach and you'd be surprised how many people do have chickens.
Once a year we get a steer from Ramona and butcher it ourselves. This way we know it's really grass fed. On top of that I usually shoot a deer and we catch fish year round. I hate buying anything from a grocery store.
wrong. that is a complete misunderstanding of this sentence.
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Mexico now accounts for 71 percent of the U.S. import market
the percentage of overall imported tomatoes in the US, vs. the percent of tomatoes sold in the US.
two entirely different things.
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