A long time ago, I read that you could double the wages of farm laborers and it ...

Scoundreller · on March 28, 2020

If that.

Many farm-products have negligible farm-labour cost in their production: beans, rice, tomatoes, pulses, potatoes, onions, grains...

Their farm costs are in land, storage, drying and expensive equipment. They're not being picked by hand and manually weeded.

And even then, the price difference between the farm-gate and grocery store is massive.

swixmix · on March 28, 2020

But the small and medium sized farms that do those things by hand with the local work force will not be able to afford to pay their workers.

bluGill · on March 29, 2020

Breakfast cereal has very little farm labor. It takes seconds for a combine to harvest all the wheat you would eat in a year.

Fruit and fresh vegetables are much more labor intense.