Quote:minimum wage is not calculated by they day or by "per vine" Per vine indicates what is called piece work
...You get paid .28 cents per vine and nothing by the hour which is minimum wage is all about...If you prune 100 vines and your pruners break, and you have no back up, so you get sent home, you made $28 for the day...I understand that is a far fetched scenerio, but the premis is the same...Piece work and hourly wage can't be compared...


 

I am not talking about credentials, I am talking about small owner operator farmers just as I said...

 

Most pricing agreements have clauses about raising prices...There are price increases in all parts and times of pricing agreements...Fuel increases, are a major one...Not everyone sells to a co-op either...some farmers sell to other farmers who are specialized in one area such as corn, beets, mint, potatos etc...and need hay for their own beef and horses...some sell to the local feed mills, some farmers sell to other farmers who sell to the co-op or local feed mill at a better rate than they get themselves,so the farmer does have some control over pricing

You made the comparison to minimum wage lol. I agree you can't compare them but you threw the term sub minimum wage in there and that's not how it works at all. If the guy made $28 a day he only worked about an hour to get it. That's still not even close to minimum wage and I don't understand where you're going with that example.


You're talking about small owner operators annnnnnnnnnnnd making an appeal to authority at the same time.


All those examples you threw out could technically exist I guess but I'd consider those circumstances so rare as to not even be relevant to the discussion. And I've never seen a sales contract that stipulates prices based on fuel costs in my life. It's somewhat common in a mechanical harvesting contract but not a sales contract. Maybe they do it differently wherever it was your grandfather farms but I think to put the term "most" on it is a stretch.

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