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On Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:00:11 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

> A short of harvesting. It is manual. Lots of immigration labour.
> https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a3TU299iFvo

In the US mechanical harvesting is done whenever feasible. Like the 
tomatoes often cultivars better adapted to machinery are developed in 
conjunction with the machinery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_7TRko1VwQ

Tree shaking works for many nuts. Efficient techniques for olives are 
being developed. Fruit still involves a lot of hand labor. 

Some field crops are easier to mechanize.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qDWRZEZdng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMe-d6s9YEU

In the '70s the USDA head, Earl Butz, coined the phrase 'get big or get 
out.' Smaller farmers have hung on but it's difficult.