Farm mechanization?
Are you financing the new equipment for the farmers?
Or are you thinking of more entitlement programs to help the small farmers with the huge investment in equipment?
Quit giving me the end result as the plan, and get me from illegal aliens picking tomatoes for small farmers to mechanization...and detail HOW the farmers will afford the equipment.
P.S. Is the equipment invented yet?
You remind me a lot of John Kerry...I HAVE A PLAN!!
"What's the plan John?"
"Can't tell you now."
Yes Luis, I love the way you set up strawman arguments to avoid responding to my actual answers. It's a notorious habit of yours.
Advancements in agricultural engineering have been taking place for the last century and a half. Here's a synopsis from the D.O.A. since you still have your head stuck in 19th century :
"Increased agricultural productivity was one of the most significant farm developments during the second half of the 20th century. Productivity gains were largely due to the availability and adoption of new or improved technologies. Over the past 50 years, agricultural output increased as the level of inputs remained constant or declined. The result was sustained growth in farm productivity without the need to commit additional resources (workers) to the production process. Increased productivity was a major factor in a farmer’s or rancher’s ability to stay in business when prices they received for production were relatively low.".Like I've said previously, advancements in the specific area of automating of stoop labor have been slowed thanks to political pressure from illegal (labor) lobby. So advancements have been taking place, just not as fast or as much as they should have been over the past several decades.That has to change. We spend billions through the D.O.A. on various crop subsidies every year. Just a portion of that spent directly in the area of attempting to find new and improved ways to automate stoop labor would yield big dividends for our agricultural industry.
Farm mechanization is not some pie in the sky proposal pal, -why colleges and universities all over our country offer degrees (up to and including doctorates) in this field. There are tons of bright people with these degrees that have been putting their knowledge and expertise to good use for both government agencies and private companies. And our farmers have benefited from their contributions. They would like to do a lot more and I think we should give them the opportunity to do so.