Nope, sorry. There’s a lot of automation in agriculture that could be done—including around the picking of crops—that hasn’t, because we’ve got cheap Mexican labor.
And I’ve been involved in farming for decades.
The cost of labor in agriculture should be the same as it is in the rest of our economy: what legals and Americans are willing to do it for. That’s the free market. Period. End of story.
We’re both in agriculture, and I agree wholeheartedly with what you said:
“The cost of labor in agriculture should be the same as it is in the rest of our economy: what legals and Americans are willing to do it for. That’s the free market. Period. End of story.”
The problem is that I believe crops will die in the field before you’ll get unskilled Americans to work that hard. You have a higher opinion of our labor force than I do, which is where this discussion began.