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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Prisoners are not skilled agricultural workers.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Other possible non-skilled ag tasks could include picking fruit/vegetables, milking cows/goats, feeding animals, cleaning animal pens, working with bales…idk there’s just a lot of things they can do with very little skill or experience. Lots of menial tasks.

    For many crops, picking fruit, for example, is an immensely skill-oriented task in order to do it fast enough to be profitable.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Hence when they are "migrant" workers who keep making their way north all harvest season to keep harvesting the crops as they become ready. A lot of fruits have a narrow harvest window of just a few days, and you can't wait around for a bunch of novices try to figure out how to harvest them.

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