No pickers means no produce.

If all the immigrant workers get bused back to Mexico who will keep picking the fruit and vegetables that goes onto the shop shelves and on to your dinner table?

What do readers think would be a reasonable hourly wage to get paid for picking fruit if you had to help harvest a crop and get it to market?

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Sharon · F

That's a problem we had in the UK immediately post-Brexit. A lot of young people from Eastern Europe used to come to the UK at harvest time to work on the fields. When we left the EU and they no longer had the right to work here, there was a serious agricultural labour shortage and literally tonnes of produce was left to rot in the fields because there were insufficient workers to havest it.

barney1 · M

@Sharon the other point is because of this and Brexit in general it has pushed the prices up and we have empty shelves at times in the shops

Sharon · F

@barney1 That's right. Luckily I live in the country and some local farmers let it be known that we could help ourselves to food from the fields as it was only going to rot otherwise. As you say, at the same time there were empty shelves in the shops.