I worked in a California prune orchard one summer. It provided a very good motivation to go ahead and get that college degree.
I did plenty of farmwork myself. It didn't pay much but it taught me something about responsibility. I mowed lawns all around town from the time I was about 10 or 11 years old.
I worked on a farm every summer from the time I got out of diapers (family farm and everybody who doesn't pee his pants has a job in the busy season.) If somebody would pay me enough, I might return to that kind of work in my retirement. It is hard physical work, the kind that makes you sleep like a dead thing once you get over all your pains and fall asleep, but it is honest, healthy work that keeps you in good shape.
Amazing how well physical labor provides incentive to obtain a higher education, isn't it?
If more High School kids could but get a taste. Then they would appreciate the guy who mows the lawn, too.