Are you sure it’s “Chinese”?
The Vietnamese have been steadily taking over the poultry industry for the last 10-15 years, and they’re being given sweetheart deal by banks with low/no interest loans and (from what I’ve heard) don’t have to pay taxes. It wouldn’t surprise me that the same thing is happening in the pot industry.
It’s very hard for a white person to get into the chicken business unless you have a half million dollars in the bank, but from what I hear, the Vietnamese are getting in with no money down.
I will say though that all the Vietnamese chicken farmers I know are really nice hard working folks, and they pay me for the work I do way better than my other customers. Of course, that could be because they’re not paying interest or taxes...
I have two coworkers who told me the land next to theirs was bought and being used to grow pot by Chinese workers. One of them has them on each side of his property. They drive a Kubota back and forth and he’s seen them looking at his place. He’s expecting someone will approach him to sell.
The Vietnamese getting into the poultry business started during the Clinton administration. The migration actually started when he was governor. I used to work with 6 or 7 Vietnamese in Ft Smith back in ‘90 - ‘91. Most were actively assimilating to being Americans and were very hard working and friendly. Nice guys. Two of them were lazy pricks who still wore their north Vietnamese jackets when it got cold. Arkansas was paying incentives to businesses who hired them at the time.
