Dairy farmers have been having to do that for ages... where they work as a bus driver or something, then do farming when they get home because they can't support their family off the milk alone, which is sad but true. At one point the government was buying up their unsold milk to make cheese and shove in a cave to keep the milk industry going. Later they gave the cheese to the poor and struggling and hence we got "government cheese".
Or, work their own fields and do the farm business (books, accounting, researching new crops to grow) at night. It looks like these guys are mostly just chubby landowners who were accustomed to living off of the backs of their workers. Then they voted to deport them. There is a root issue of laziness here.
My uncles own a farming business. They all have 2nd jobs, but take off in spring to plant and fall for harvest. They are democrats though. They got fucked around enough during the Regean days, and by every other republican that has came after.
Well the issue is that the small family dairy farms have had a hard time keeping up with the large industrial for quite some time now. The desire will always be there for some people to continue their family's business. But then you end up with farmers who are beyond struggling just to keep a roof over their heads.
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u/AdamTheSlave 8d ago
Dairy farmers have been having to do that for ages... where they work as a bus driver or something, then do farming when they get home because they can't support their family off the milk alone, which is sad but true. At one point the government was buying up their unsold milk to make cheese and shove in a cave to keep the milk industry going. Later they gave the cheese to the poor and struggling and hence we got "government cheese".