[moe98ntuin34]

You would think that. The problem is they still can't find people to fill the jobs. (Or maybe more accurately, people believe they are above doing those types of jobs.) Take for example this Planet Money piece [1]:

>Tom Deardorff has had to compete for workers. He's raised their pay by actually quite a lot. Back in 2006, working the celery field paid about $8.70 an hour. Now it pays more than $21 an hour. [...] Tom says his workers all are documented and that even doubling wages hasn't solved the labor problem.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2018/05/03/607996811/worker-shortage-hur...

[magduf]

If he paid $100 per hour, I think he'd probably find enough people to do the job.

If that causes celery prices to rise so high that no one wants to buy it, then maybe celery just isn't an economically viable crop.