Our host David Woodruff has Nathan Cummins on the phone talking about employees during the harvest season.
Do you find enough people that want to work and can work?
It's a really, really big challenge. I mean, anybody who's in the ag industry knows that the seasonal fluctuations that happen are probably the toughest part of the employee aspect or finding employees is probably one of the toughest parts for the for the ups and downs of the busy times. That's really hard. Thankfully, I have a just a really good crew. I got a really good crew of guys and some of our sort of is the foreign worker program. We bring in some some help from Mexico and we've had the same guys come in for quite a while, like probably 10 years that we bring those guys in and house them and they kind of help buffer out a little bit of the manual labor to where our full our more full-time guys can be more focused on specialty labor, you know, tractors, semis, planting, harvesting, running pivots. They can be a little bit more focused on that.
Oh yeah, it makes a lot of sense. So do you have any the language problem or anything like that?
A lot of my main guys that are here speak Spanish. As far as farm Spanish goes, I'm actually fairly fluent. Well, I was raised on a farm in southern Idaho, right? And so I started learning Spanish when I was very young. And so I, you know, was able to pick it back up and and continue doing that. So I mean, I can speak pretty good Spanish and slowly getting better at it as I continue to use it.
Nathan Cummins with David Woodruff on the Harvest USA report.
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