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riversedge

(76,663 posts)
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 05:14 PM Tuesday

According to Reuters, up to 70% of farmworkers stayed home, terrified of deportation, leaving fruits and vegetables to s

This was 3 weeks ago--I imagine things have gotten worse---more crops rotting in the fields.



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According to Reuters, up to 70% of farmworkers stayed home, terrified of deportation, leaving fruits and vegetables to spoil unharvested during peak season.

Farmers warn these disruptions threaten the $60 billion California agriculture sector www.reuters.com/business/imm...

According to Reuters, up to 70% of farmworkers stayed home, terrified of deportation, leaving fruits and vegetables to spoil unharvested during peak season.

Farmers warn these disruptions threaten the  billion California agriculture sector www.reuters.com/business/imm...

🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 (@msgrumpybunny.bsky.social) 2025-07-22T20:05:07.302Z



Fear is spreading across the supply chain because the impact isn’t limited to California.

The UFW union reports laborers across New York and elsewhere are “terrified” to show up, even though many are legal or undocumented workers filling vital roles.


www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

and could drive up grocery prices nationwide.

🚨 There’s a boiling frog analogy here somewhere…

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 (@msgrumpybunny.bsky.social) 2025-07-22T20:05:07.303Z


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According to Reuters, up to 70% of farmworkers stayed home, terrified of deportation, leaving fruits and vegetables to s (Original Post) riversedge Tuesday OP
Holy crap! 70%? Food prices are gonna go up and up. And on top of TSF's tarrfffs... brush Tuesday #1
If true, we'll have to rely more on IMPORTED fruits and vegs BaronChocula Tuesday #9
A self-own Catch-22 we can't escape. Thanks, trump. brush Tuesday #14
This will be devastating for northern state farms when harvest season hits soon. nt ImNotGod Tuesday #2
Lots of people who had milked cows in WI have left. Right now farmers are relying on HS kids but riversedge Tuesday #4
Calling all MAGAts. The employment opportunities Dr. T Tuesday #6
Well, they got rid of Department of Education so maybe they won't get to go to school. travelingthrulife Tuesday #7
Let's not forget the devastation to those workers and their families, who are unlikely to have a big cushion of savings Scrivener7 Tuesday #3
From farm to table, at least one in five jobs in the food industry is carried out by immigrants, the equivalent of 14 mi riversedge Tuesday #5
Good to know. calimary Tuesday #23
And a safe guess is that at least half of whom ICE rounded up were legal JT45242 Tuesday #8
Even easier just come by the fields at dawn. I keep telling ya: those berry-pickers are damn dangerous hombres... Hekate Tuesday #13
I am reading they get grabbed and thrown out of country almost immediately dixiegrrrrl Tuesday #24
We drove past ag fields planted next to US 101 this morning -- no workers in sight... Hekate Tuesday #10
Nobody thought farther than the present. calimary Tuesday #26
Terrific quote -- thx for sharing Hekate Tuesday #37
Have to hit GOP/Trump with inflation their overzealous actions are causing. Friend just got a quote for some work... dutch777 Tuesday #11
K&R UTUSN Tuesday #12
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Tuesday #15
I hate posts like this... druidity33 Tuesday #19
Maybe ICE can pick up swong19104 Tuesday #16
WTF? BoRaGard Tuesday #17
lemons are getting scarce in my area.. Colorado mountain grammy Tuesday #18
Based on personal experience, produce prices are already rising. Hassler Tuesday #20
That fucking rascist scum Steven Miller has Dotards ear... AZ8theist Tuesday #21
Other than that, what do you think of the guy? Gimpyknee Tuesday #35
Enjoy your food relayerbob Tuesday #22
Stand Back!!!!! Stable Genius At Work!!!!! BurnDoubt Tuesday #25
"Stable Dweller" is more like it. calimary Tuesday #28
Excellent post! Thank you very much. liberalla Tuesday #27
A great victory for MAGAts and the Oligarchy. DJ Synikus Makisimus Tuesday #29
Let them eat tariffs. Oh wait, cake, I mean cake, not tariffs. twodogsbarking Tuesday #30
Kick dalton99a Tuesday #31
Soon the buses will be sent to Medicaid recipients homes and they will be taken to the fields to pick cotton, oh wait, twodogsbarking Tuesday #32
And this all was intentional. LilElf70 Tuesday #33
tRUMP's tubs of lard diehards will not be out there picking fruits and veggies wolfie001 Tuesday #34
Perhaps they can be classified as "essential workers" BWdem4life Tuesday #36

brush

(60,645 posts)
1. Holy crap! 70%? Food prices are gonna go up and up. And on top of TSF's tarrfffs...
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 05:29 PM
Tuesday

Last edited Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:40 PM - Edit history (1)

causng prices to go up...not good.

BaronChocula

(3,012 posts)
9. If true, we'll have to rely more on IMPORTED fruits and vegs
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:18 PM
Tuesday

that are subject to the TRUMP TAX.

riversedge

(76,663 posts)
4. Lots of people who had milked cows in WI have left. Right now farmers are relying on HS kids but
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 05:52 PM
Tuesday

the kids have said they won't be able to do that once school starts.

Dr. T

(312 posts)
6. Calling all MAGAts. The employment opportunities
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:09 PM
Tuesday

that your orange god promised have finally surfaced. Get to it! Those cows ain't gonna' milk themselves.

Scrivener7

(56,514 posts)
3. Let's not forget the devastation to those workers and their families, who are unlikely to have a big cushion of savings
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 05:37 PM
Tuesday

to get through this time. They are facing a choice to starve or get disappeared.

riversedge

(76,663 posts)
5. From farm to table, at least one in five jobs in the food industry is carried out by immigrants, the equivalent of 14 mi
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 05:56 PM
Tuesday



From farm to table, at least one in five jobs in the food industry is carried out by immigrants, the equivalent of 14 million workers across the sector. Illustration: The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/17/how-many-immigrants-food-industry-workers




JT45242

(3,498 posts)
8. And a safe guess is that at least half of whom ICE rounded up were legal
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:16 PM
Tuesday

Whether they are citizens, green card holders, on a visa...they are the easy targets because you can pick them up at hearings, paperwork renewals, etc.

Easier still just stand outside a church, grocery store, etc. and gran every brown person who does not actively have a passport open on a lanyard around their neck.

Hekate

(98,600 posts)
13. Even easier just come by the fields at dawn. I keep telling ya: those berry-pickers are damn dangerous hombres...
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:29 PM
Tuesday


I despise Homan the Inhuman and every thug associated with ICE.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,075 posts)
24. I am reading they get grabbed and thrown out of country almost immediately
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 07:30 PM
Tuesday

Not real clear on how thorough any citizenship test is being done.

Hekate

(98,600 posts)
10. We drove past ag fields planted next to US 101 this morning -- no workers in sight...
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:25 PM
Tuesday

This is unsustainable — just like dairy cattle who don’t get milked will either dry up (if they are lucky) or sicken — the nation’s salads and veggies can’t exist without tending.

What the hell did people think was going to happen?

calimary

(87,121 posts)
26. Nobody thought farther than the present.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 07:37 PM
Tuesday

Many only cared about how ballsy trump presented himself to be. And that was somehow supposed to be enough or some magic instant fix-it. That kind of high is extremely short lived.

Btw - my husband is watching a documentary called “How the Nazis Lost the War”. I just heard the narrator’s voice saying “a God-complex rarely ends well.” Pardon the pun but - HOLY COW!!! Could be my next “quote of the week”*



*as one of the writers of my Indivisible group’s weekly “Call to Action” emails, they always start with a quote, and I wind up being the one who picks the quote. This one sure packs a punch!

dutch777

(4,631 posts)
11. Have to hit GOP/Trump with inflation their overzealous actions are causing. Friend just got a quote for some work...
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:25 PM
Tuesday

...at his place and it was for $17k and in the line item breakdown was a line for Tariff fee-- $500. The work required aluminum components. There is a cost for this nonsense and it is starting to show.

Response to riversedge (Original post)

druidity33

(6,792 posts)
19. I hate posts like this...
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:51 PM
Tuesday

it's "i've got mine" bullshit. A LOT OF PEOPLE cannot grow their own anything. For a whole host of reasons. It's privilege that you're talking about. Please recognize it. And if you have enough... SHARE.



swong19104

(463 posts)
16. Maybe ICE can pick up
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:34 PM
Tuesday

Shovels and baskets and get to work harvesting produce. They’re getting paid pretty well. So go for it.

Hassler

(4,458 posts)
20. Based on personal experience, produce prices are already rising.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:52 PM
Tuesday

California grapes last year were $1.78lb and now $2.48lb

AZ8theist

(6,792 posts)
21. That fucking rascist scum Steven Miller has Dotards ear...
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:52 PM
Tuesday

And didn't bother to explain to the MAGATS that they will soon be paying $12 bucks for a single piece of fruit.
All because he's a self-hating Jew with a bad case of xenophobia. A vile low-life if there ever was one.

BurnDoubt

(843 posts)
25. Stand Back!!!!! Stable Genius At Work!!!!!
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 07:35 PM
Tuesday

Wait 'til they find out they can't eat Bitcoin!!!!!
DumbFucks.

calimary

(87,121 posts)
28. "Stable Dweller" is more like it.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 07:41 PM
Tuesday

With apologies to horses and other legitimate stable inhabitants everywhere.

DJ Synikus Makisimus

(1,077 posts)
29. A great victory for MAGAts and the Oligarchy.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 07:46 PM
Tuesday

This is the perfect scenario for them. Not only does WOKE California's economy get trashed. Not only do the racist xenoophobes get satiated. Not only does the union (UFW) take a big hit. But food shortages mean that prices will go up to the consumer, and further profit can be tacked on because "expenses have risen while supply has shrunk," and the few get even wealthier. Also, probably, shortages mean food banks have less to distribute to the poor, so they starve. Win, win, win, win, win for the GOP!

What a shithole country.

twodogsbarking

(14,504 posts)
32. Soon the buses will be sent to Medicaid recipients homes and they will be taken to the fields to pick cotton, oh wait,
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 07:50 PM
Tuesday

vegetables. Forget I said cotton.

LilElf70

(987 posts)
33. And this all was intentional.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 07:57 PM
Tuesday

What kind of financial idiot would approve of such actions? How could you not see this coming? Not only does he want to destroy democracy, he wants to take the economy too.

How any magat can still support this loser, when he putting all of us in the poor house, is way beyond my comprehension. Wait didn't he promise lower prices? Hmmmm, yet another friggin lie. This is unbelievable. I am hoping I wake some day, and find this all a very bad dream.

wolfie001

(5,741 posts)
34. tRUMP's tubs of lard diehards will not be out there picking fruits and veggies
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 08:12 PM
Tuesday

Those idiots, most of 'em have to buy velcro tennis shoes.

BWdem4life

(2,573 posts)
36. Perhaps they can be classified as "essential workers"
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 08:19 PM
Tuesday

And promised safety from deportation....



I jest.

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