Mr. Aussicker is a member of a five generation family that owns and operates a blueberry farm in Holland, Michigan.
You got never less then seven cents an hour or pound with piece rate. I remember one family [that] had two or three boys. Their goal was a hundred pounds each a day, and that would get them seven dollars each. They were making pretty close to thirty dollars a day.
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