There is a great deal of concern about increased prices at the grocery store for food and many people blame President Biden and, by connection, Vice President Harris for this issue. There is even a train of thought that Donald Trump would fix this problem if elected.

But one of Trump’s biggest strategies is to deport all of the undocumented immigrants. This proposal shows how little Trump understands the agricultural labor situation in the United States, which so heavily relies on immigrant labor both for lower labor costs and the skills of agricultural labor.

We rely on immigrant labor for much of the farm work done in this country, especially harvesting crops The one part of agriculture that is not routinely thought of utilizing migrant labor is the production of milk. Milk farmers run a 24/7/365 operation which requires large number of workers to care for the health, welfare and feeding, as well as milking every cow every day.

This type of work is backbreaking, hard, messy and badly paid, yet highly skilled. If all of the migrants were to disappear tomorrow, at best American labor would be much more expensive, at worst the very people who have built the skills to manage dairy cows would be deported.

America relies on cheap milk for much of its food industry, in fact as every expense related to producing milk has exploded exponentially, but milk and milk products have essentially flatlined, making running a dairy farm at a profit extremely difficult.

Another very difficult issue is that milk cows need to be milked every day and if a farmer cannot milk cows, they will stop producing milk. Just from an economic point of view, skilled migrant labor working as permanently as staff on milk farms is crucial to American milk production.

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