california. however,s the me the departmene industrial relations and the employment agency last year reread the law, the letter ofler the la ow and said it states nothing in the law about goatherds it just mentioned sheepherder s. at that poinat that t, they saie will have to pay our herdershal and hourly rate time and a half double time sleep time, everything else on call time, t which equates to well over fourteen thousand a monthnimu and will continue to rise with the minimum wage risem rase that are scheduled to takexc e effect between now and two thousand twenty five . so i m not great at math , but i m seeing like close to 15050,a thousand dollars a year to herdw goats. yot you re saying?u yeah, yeah. that and probably more .o effect if this takes to takes intoo efe effect. however, it takes into effecctt nobody can know. tut i couldn t pass that cos on to cities or, you know, utilities or whatever .
they d think we re nuts to raise our rates that high. h you know, i had goats growing up. u my dad did. we had put up electric fencefen, through two or three strands with nele in the trees and make pens and that eat everythingould like literally if they could reach it and they could reachoud things you didn t know they could reach, they can climb a pole, agrees pole. they can climbth anything but there would be no vegetation left. i would imagine that s a pretty th important part of keeping wildfires from destroying communities. well, in california, we ve had record record rain this year. one the highest rainfalls and snowpack on record. we have record growt h, grass s record growth and brushe gs and so, yes,to they ll lift the canopy to five plus feet. they ll take the grasses down to two to three inches. s soo if you do get a fire , it s called the cold fire or coolco fire . it crawls along the ground. fire departments could putnt it out. it s not a problemcan . what what can y
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