No permanent workers (hands?) because perhaps they might have to take responsibilty, a bit, for them. Migrant labor far more convenient I suppose but then we use this labour a lot in the UK as well as contractors for cropping and the rest.
No permanent workers due the nature of the harvest. It only lasts for a few weeks in a given area (and harvest is the only time you need outside help) Once the crops are harvested in one zone the workers migrate to the next harvest zone. you need to rememeber that a medium sized state (or a small Canadian province) here is far larger than the UK and maybe another European country combined. harvest starts in south Florida and Texas around late March and shifts northward until it turns around for the second harvest in the southern tier in late October.
But you're right in that a lot of the migrant laborers are alien.
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