Heard from a farmer friend of mine who's part of a few associations that seasonal migrant workers are likely going to fall under the Gov travel bans. While finding local help may actually be somewhat possible if industry slows down, it depends how desperate those people really are. Finding local help is damn near impossible these days when it comes to manual farm labor, even if you're willing to pay well above min wage. If this were to end up the case, a lot of farmers are going to be in considerable trouble, which will also cause stress to the food market, increasing prices and potentially causing some shortages. It's certainly not good for the migrant workers either, who many come from vacation resort type countries, who won't be able to find work there either if they can't come here.
Hopefully this illness starts to dwindle soon enough, or that the Gov starts working on a plan to help solve this potential problem along with all the rest.
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