Quote:Farmwork is not always mandated to pay minimum wage, some aspects of farm work can pay sub-minimum wage, ( such as being paid "$X.03 per bale of hay bucked) not to mention it's pretty much all cash under the table work so they can pay whatever they want or whatever the market will allow...Locals DO take the jobs, but the nature of such work is not always stable...There isn't much work between cuttings of hay, and after the hay was up, not much work until the next cutting, weeks later, so it becomes sporadic...It's hard to keep any help when it's seasonal or sporatic...I do recall, that farmwork allows up to a certain amount of labor called ( Casual Labor) to go un reported and un taxed...

 

That's simple, if they HAD to pay minum wage, they would simply raise the price of hay to compensate for the rise in labor cost