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

[riversedge]

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

[brush]

1. Holy crap! 70%? Food prices are gonna go up and up. And on top of TSF's tarrfffs...

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causng prices to go up...not good.

[BaronChocula]

9. If true, we'll have to rely more on IMPORTED fruits and vegs

that are subject to the TRUMP TAX.

[brush]

14. A self-own Catch-22 we can't escape. Thanks, trump.

[ImNotGod]

2. This will be devastating for northern state farms when harvest season hits soon. nt

[riversedge]

4. Lots of people who had milked cows in WI have left. Right now farmers are relying on HS kids but

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

[Dr. T]

6. Calling all MAGAts. The employment opportunities

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

[travelingthrulife]

7. Well, they got rid of Department of Education so maybe they won't get to go to school.

[Scrivener7]

3. Let's not forget the devastation to those workers and their families, who are unlikely to have a big cushion of savings

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

[riversedge]

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

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

[calimary]

23. Good to know.

[JT45242]

8. And a safe guess is that at least half of whom ICE rounded up were legal

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]

13. Even easier just come by the fields at dawn. I keep telling ya: those berry-pickers are damn dangerous hombres...

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

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. I am reading they get grabbed and thrown out of country almost immediately

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

[Hekate]

10. We drove past ag fields planted next to US 101 this morning -- no workers in sight...

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]

26. Nobody thought farther than the present.

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!

[Hekate]

37. Terrific quote -- thx for sharing

[dutch777]

11. Have to hit GOP/Trump with inflation their overzealous actions are causing. Friend just got a quote for some work...

...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.

[UTUSN]

12. K&R

[druidity33]

19. I hate posts like this...

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]

16. Maybe ICE can pick up

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

[BoRaGard]

17. WTF?

republicons are trashing America

[mountain grammy]

18. lemons are getting scarce in my area.. Colorado

[Hassler]

20. Based on personal experience, produce prices are already rising.

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

[AZ8theist]

21. That fucking rascist scum Steven Miller has Dotards ear...

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.

[Gimpyknee]

35. Other than that, what do you think of the guy?

[relayerbob]

22. Enjoy your food

While you still have some.

[BurnDoubt]

25. Stand Back!!!!! Stable Genius At Work!!!!!

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

[calimary]

28. "Stable Dweller" is more like it.

With apologies to horses and other legitimate stable inhabitants everywhere.

[liberalla]

27. Excellent post! Thank you very much.

... and thank you Guardian for the reporting.

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

29. A great victory for MAGAts and the Oligarchy.

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]

30. Let them eat tariffs. Oh wait, cake, I mean cake, not tariffs.

[dalton99a]

31. Kick

[twodogsbarking]

32. Soon the buses will be sent to Medicaid recipients homes and they will be taken to the fields to pick cotton, oh wait,

vegetables. Forget I said cotton.

[LilElf70]

33. And this all was intentional.

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]

34. tRUMP's tubs of lard diehards will not be out there picking fruits and veggies

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

[BWdem4life]

36. Perhaps they can be classified as "essential workers"

And promised safety from deportation....



I jest.