“Last year they paid me $15, and this year they told me they’re paying $13.” “One area chain store paid me $17 a box for my sweet potatoes three years ago,” he recalled. Meanwhile, buyers - equally squeezed by inflation - are offering farmers less and less. “What with labor, fuel and fertilizer, my input costs have probably gone up 50%.” “For New Jersey farmers, that pay rate went up $1.50 last year, and it went up $1 the year before that,” Cassaday said. Store chains, he said, bring in sweet potatoes from Georgia - where, under federal law, seasonal farm workers make just $11.99 per hour, compared to the $15.54 hourly wage mandated in New Jersey. They fool you into thinking you’re buying all this local stuff, and it’s not local at all.” Cassaday said that rising costs and plummeting prices for the sweet potatoes he grows in New Jersey make it impossible to continue. Local can be 500 miles away local can be anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere. “There is no definition of what ‘local’ is. “There’s a lot of fraud in produce,” he said. “But I’m at the point now where I can’t grow vegetables anymore.”ĭespite the Garden State’s “Jersey Fresh” branding campaign, Cassaday said, New York-area supermarket chains use deceptive marketing practices to fool consumers while undercutting local farmers. George Cassaday’s family has grown produce at Cassaday Farms, Monroeville, NJ, since they arrived from Ireland in 1895 - and he’s about to throw in the towel because of federal laws, inflation and fake virtue-signaling. Actually, he says, “local can be 500 miles away.” Tamara Beckwith/NY Post ‘I cannot compete with that farmer in Georgia’
Cassaday says New York-area supermarket chains use deceptive marketing practices to fool consumers into thinking they’re buying local. Here, five of them describe their challenges. Hochul’s labor betrayal, foreign competition and other woes. “I guess the politicians just figure we’ll keep going no matter what they do to us.įarmers all over New York and New Jersey say they are being pushed to those limits by President Biden’s attack on energy, Gov. “The United States has never had any trouble feeding itself and much of the world, too,” said upstate New York farmer Tim Stanton.
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