NY Times- Hiring Locally for Farm Work Is No Cure All (ones getting soft??)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/us/farmers-strain-to-hire-american-workers-in-place-of-migrant-labor.html?scp=2&sq=colorado%20farming&st=cse

A few statements really stick out for me........
1. "Still, Mr. Mattics said, he can’t help feeling that people have gotten soft"

2. “Farmers have to bear almost all the labor market risk because they must prove no one really was available, qualified or willing to work,” said Dawn D. Thilmany, a professor of agricultural economics at Colorado State University.


Agriculture, A Sacred Task!