From Gig to Grid: How Digital Platforms, Payments, and Escrow Are Rebuilding Agricultural Labor
Agricultural labor doesn't have a shortage problem. It has a matching, timing, and settlement problem.
The crews exist. The work exists. The money exists. What's missing in most counties is a system that can put those three things in the same place on the same day — with confidence the work will get paid for when it's done.
For 50 years, the answer was relationships and spreadsheets. They worked when project volumes were low and geographies were tight. They don't work when work is seasonal, sp