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Originally Posted by Redlemon
The illegal jobs market is extraordinarily significant to this issue, and needs to be addressed somehow. The strawberry crops will need to be picked somehow, and the owners of these farms are enjoying an illegal subsidy right now. Preventing migrant workers will mean a huge economic impact on the farming sector. I don't know the answer, and Ann doesn't either.
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The south was saying the same thing about cotton when slavery was abolished. Then someone invented one of these
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This is one of the forms of cotton harvesters. The machine passes over the rows, properly spaced, to comb and vacuum up the cotton boles from the defoliated plants.
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I'll bet something interesting is invented to harvest strawberries if cheap illegal labor dries up. thats the way things go around here. something about necessity and the mother of inventions.