This is very intensive, hand picking, back breaking work.
Not condusive to machinery.
Then I guess it’ll rot, won’t it?
That's what they said about picking cotton in the mid 1800s.
Necessity is the Mother of Invention.
I am a white anglo-saxon protestant gun owning Republican heterosexual who has done significant amounts of farm work within the last five years. TO HELL with these employers of illegal aliens. Pay market wages and your crops will get picked. Period. And yep, we’ll pay more for food. And a ton less in taxes to pay for the illegal Mexicans who crowd our schools, jails and hospitals. I married into a farming family and know the details guys. It ain’t that hard. Raise wages and guess what, your fruit will get picked.
Kind of like de-seeding cotton used to be. The Eli Whitney of lettuce is just around the corner.
“This is very intensive, hand picking, back breaking work.
Not condusive to machinery.”
Make no mistake machinery can do the job.
There are many examples of crops being harvested by machinery, however the farmers have been doing things a certain way for so long they have had NO INCENTIVE to change. I live here in produce-land and I see the crops and the workers and the machines. Farmers are very innovative when they want to be. UC Davis is a major AG university, those brainiacs can develop a resolution for any of these issues.
You are exactly right.
This happening because the government has been refusing to do their job. The more this happens the more of our produce will be grown in Mexico, China, and other third world countrys.
That was once said about harvesting corn and cotton.
The simple truth is the ready availability of cheap serf/slave/bracerro labor stifles innovation.