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Are there still many growers in Wilkes? I know there used to be.

IF TYSON SHUT DOWN BYE BYE WILKES CO YALL KNOW IT DONT WANA ADMIT IT IF TYSON SHUT DOWN NO EATING JOINTS ON 421 COUNTY COMMINISONERS BE CRYING THE BLUES **** BE CRYING THE BLUES YALL WANT 421 IN WILKES TO BE A GHOST TOWN YOU CAN HAVE YA WISH IF ?/ TYSON EVER SHUT DOWN LAUGH ALL YALL WANT {{NO TYSON NO WILKES }}

You're right finley if the next top 10 employers in Wilkes closed it still wouldn't have the effect of Tyson closing.

You might be right about 4% I don't know but if you had a clue as to how many companies rely on and would have to lay off employees if Tyson were gone your 4% is grossly off base. And no the growers are not considered employees.

BB, I'm not saying that Tyson has NO value. I'm replying to nc268, who keeps saying that without them the county would collapse.

Valuable, sure, but it's only 4%. And I'm pretty sure their estimate of employment includes the growers.

If someone made $100,000 a year and lost 4%, they would still make $96,000.

They use too much water. The new water intake at W Kerr Scott could be scrapped. Worms don't need much water.

@antithesis
You keep saying this over and over, but it's just silly. Tyson employs less than 4% of the county, and a lot of these employees are imported from other areas (like Burma):

It's more than the employees, isn't it? what of the economics of 200 plus growers and the money they generate.

And let's count up a minute around 2500 employees times $400/week or more after taxes if they work the six days. $1 million/week?

That is a lot of economy

Yep convert the chicken houses to worm farms.

WILKES NEEDS TYSON BADLY NO TYSON NO WILKES IF TYSON SHUT DOWN ID GIVE WILKES COUNTY LESS THAN A MONTH TO DRY UP BLOW AWAY

You keep saying this over and over, but it's just silly. Tyson employs less than 4% of the county, and a lot of these employees are imported from other areas (like Burma):

http://businessclimate.com/...-employers

That's a lot, but not critical by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, they were close to bankruptcy in 2009, and the county hardly noticed.

It's just a matter of time before they move to Central or South America, anyway, where they can get cheaper labor, cheaper real estate, and cheaper taxes. Every time someone here complains about being overworked and underpaid, they take one more step south.

WILKES NEEDS TYSON BADLY NO TYSON NO WILKES IF TYSON SHUT DOWN ID GIVE WILKES COUNTY LESS THAN A MONTH TO DRY UP BLOW AWAY

aww, de poor widdle hippiecowman had his post deleted

I got behind a truck load of chickens this morning as I ate my cajun fillet biscuit. As I gazed upon those fithy terrified birds I couldn't help but wonder if they'd taste better with some Duke's mayonnaise.

I done some research and found why you are having to work Saturdays.

The means of production must be nationalized and the needs of the workers placed first. The Tysons and Perdues of this world have lorded over the worker far too long. Only with the elimination of the oppressive capitalist system will the workers achieve happiness.

I once was worth over one million dollars at age 40 and went broke due to the economy killing my business. I closed the doors on my business, there were no jobs to be has. I went to work at a local company for minimum wage for the first 90 days. At least it was a job and I had insurance. I climbed up of the floor, held my head high and left that company two years later in upper middle management. You are not given anything, you have to earth it

I am still digging, working every day, never to get back to where I was but enjoy what I do and plan to work until I did

One works what legitimate job one can find and do at a time of running out of everything else to live on regardless of educational background.

We might have to bring Perdue in here.

you can forget the union in the plant. we tried a long time ago and it will never happen !!!!

Woo Wee I Bet those Burmese Immigrant's are not complaining they have to work.

rooster2	Posted 11:37 am, 07/31/2015
feed haul works 70 hrs an don'tget time an a half for over 40 hrs

I believe they are paid by the load.