[FBD]

Costs will NOT rise. Mechanization is replacing the unskilled migrant worker. Many kinds of fruits and vegetables are now being harvested by machines. The only thing that will cause the price of produce to increase, is high fuel costs for the farmer.

Here's proof to back up my #36 post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1326816/posts
The new grapes of wrath (Migrant fieldworkers being displaced by mechanization)

[FBD]

Check out these short videos of baby leaf lettuce and spinach being mechanically harvested. (Ramsey-Highlander website).

http://www.harvestingaid.com/video/video.htm

One video of head lettuce harvesting shows how much more manual labor is still required for that crop. (That will change)

http://www.harvestingaid.com/video/video.htm

[VOA]

Costs will NOT rise. Mechanization is replacing the unskilled migrant
worker. Many kinds of fruits and vegetables are now being harvested
by machines.

And the faculty of our Agricultural Engineering departments will
get things in HYPER-DRIVE. Jumping things down on the farm from Old South
technology to 21st Century technology.

Of course, that will be "racist" as it will displace a lot of the
current manual labor in agriculture.