Meanwhile, crops are reportedly rotting on the ground in Alabama because there is no one to pick them.
I will tell you what. I have picked cotton and bailed hay... I would do it again if I have to but picking is a hard job. Not one that many will do...
I had a horse/cattle farm for a number of years. I mowed, raked, baled and bucked lots of hay. And did all of the other labor intensive work that goes with it. Fencing, irrigation pipe repair, electrical repair, rounding up runaway cows, loading them up and transporting them to market, building cow barns, horse shelters, pasture management, taking care of the sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, geese and feeding all of the other critters. I loved it! Never picked cotton and ain’t interested in doing so. If it were a choice between eating and not, I’d pick cotton and anything else that needed picking. If I had a dollar for every bale I bucked, horse I wrangled or cow I wrassled I could buy a brand new, all whistles, 4 wheel drive, F550 diesel, king cab, 8 foot bed, man truck and have enough left over to buy all the anesthetic scotch I’d need after doing that work. LOL!