I have but one point of disagreement. Farm work requires a lot of training. Moreover, every crop requires different skills that take a year or two to develop. A farmworker skilled at picking citrus fruit must be trained again, to pick a different crop.

It takes a year to grow a crop, but farmers only have one or two weeks to harvest it. If you don’t pick in time, your crops rot in the field. Believe you me, a farmer whose entire yearly income depends on his crop, does NOT want a bunch of un-trained, un-skilled people picking his crop. Not only are unskilled farmworkers slow and clumsy, but they can also destroy orchards, vines, limbs, and rootstock needed for next year’s crop to grow on. That’s just one of many reasons, that American Tech-Bros, including JD Vance, keep failing when they try to move technology into agriculture.

There are no schools anywhere in America that train people to do farm work. Farmworkers are trained by farmworkers – not farmers or corporate employers. If we want to replace undocumented farmworkers with American farmworkers, we need to train teachers and build schools for them to teach in – and farms where students can practice and develop enough skills to get a job worth $15.00 an hour to a farmer.

This is just one of many challenges that politicians have been trying to fix in agriculture for a hundred years and failed every damned time.