grapes is NOT ALL vine fruit...and farmers don't always have the money for very expensive machinery, nor do all of their farms have the space to run those machines...big ag might have the money and space, but the "little guy farmer" does not....he rest of the industrialized world has mechanized already. If field work was VITAL to agriculture, field workers would be pouring into Chile whose farms are much larger than anything OUR EPA allows. No. We cannot mechanize because we would have no need of illegals and the activists would have no excuses.
some field crops have to be hand picked. Not everything can be picked by machinery. You show how very little you know about agriculture from your statement. Most fruits MUST be hand picked. Vine crops also have to be hand picked. You really need to do some research before making such silly statements.
That's because you are flat wrong.
Vine Lines: Mechanization Of The Raisin Industry - Growing Produce
Vine fruits can be picked by machinery and should be. Like every other industrialized nation does.
i have no problem with importing workers to pick our crops, as long as they are hired and on a legal visa to do such.