theyve tried everything except paying their employees more

its tough finding well trained, hard working, diligent workers who work cheap, stay in sub-standard accommodation and never complain..

Most of the farms I've been to pre-covid treated workers, especially backpackers and immigrants, like third rate, disposable items. The easy come, easy go mentality has to stop. Why would anyone choose to work and live in shit conditions if they can do better in the city?

You either pay them a living wage or you don’t. You’re welcome.

Won’t anyone think of the conglomerates?

"Well they closed the ag colleges". _Have two boys that went to ag college but obviously worked out like most of us that it's an s-hole and life and money is better in the city. If you want workers you have to pay them very well to overcome the soulless drain of remote life. how's that for an idea_

100 to 200 workers short will always be a problem in capitalism! But in communal ownership of all things worldwide, that would either never be a problem, or would be a lot less of a problem because the pool of workers would be much larger, at least in the thousands if not millions of part time workers who don’t need to be paid a wage because communal ownership means all people own all things, so then there would be equal wealth and no wage system at all. If these people want to own their own farm, on which they have lots of work, rather than communal ownership, then they should expect to never have enough workers, and should do all the hard work themselves, working 24 hours a day, with no helpers. And we shouldn’t eat as much meat if we want to be healthy, and raising far fewer cows etc would be better for the Earth, because of all the food the animals need to eat, which is why corporations are clear cutting all the rainforests to grow more food for ANIMALS, not for humans. And human food should be grown vertically, using less land, where humans never touch the food! True, I just saw it. And humans should build and live only in TOWER cities connected to maglev Trains worldwide, to leave most of the ground for wildlife. Human encroachment is destroying most habitats for wild animals. In Africa each individual is forced to have small farms to grow their own food, until eventually there will be NO wildlife habitats! See how the T&T will be better for everyone and everything? And communal ownership of all things? USA has been violently forcing all attempts at an alternative system to fail, and yet more poor people, entire nations, want communal ownership of all things, but AMERICA WONT LET THEM HAVE WHAT THEY WANT AND NEED. See ROGUE STATE by Wm Blum and many others at THIRD WORLD TRAVELER.

This is not a permanent solution. You need to bring in immigrants from poor countries and give them decent conditions to become a permanent resource.