[NobleFree]

Agriculture has been slow to automate compared to other sectors largely because they’ve been using sub-market labor, subsidized heavily by taxpayers—now and into the future.

Make jobs attractive and pay decently and you can have the workers you need anywhere.

Yup - all basic economics.

[zeestephen]

Re: “Make jobs attractive and pay decently and you can have the workers you need anywhere.”

The best proof for that is petroleum engineers.

They have been the best paid engineers in the world for decades - primarily because they work in horrid climates, or horrid geography, or in politically dangerous countries, and because they are often separated from their loved ones for months at a time.