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Old 07-10-2008, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Skerlnik View Post
Someone's gonna call you on that figure, there.
Well, the farmer gets about 24 percent of the price of his produce. Of that percentage the farmer's cost of migrant field labor is about one third. That breaks down to about 8 to 10 percent of the price of produce going to migrant field worker labor. Where's a nit picker when you need them?
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