Farmers in the nation's top agriculture state are increasingly moving to different forms of mechanization to get around the farm labor crunch, according to a survey.
More than 40% of farmers in the past five years have been unable to obtain all the workers they needed for the production of their main crop, according to a California Farm Bureau survey.
Vineyard crews pick grapes in the early morning hours of September 18, 2018, near Sebastopol, California.Farmers in the nation's top agriculture state are increasingly moving to different forms of mechanization to get around the farm labor crunch, according to aThe number of farm workers in California has been gradually declining in the past several years and stepped-up immigration sweeps by the federal government in California haven't helped.
"The most frequently used labor-saving technology was some sort of mechanical harvester," said Dave Kranz, a spokesman for the farm bureau in Sacramento.The survey also found that other new equipment increasingly being adopted by farmers includes specialized tractor attachments and mechanical planters or weeders. The survey didn't ask specifically aboutCalifornia's
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