“The farm labor force in the U.S. is aging, and it’s not really being replaced by young immigrant workers the way it once was,” the study’s lead author told Newsweek.
Fifty-six percent of California farmers were unable hire the amount of employees they needed at some point in the last five years and more than half have started using mechanization, according to a survey released on Tuesday.
"Part of this issue is driven by labor supply factors. The farm labor force in the U.S. is aging, and it's not really being replaced by young immigrant workers the way it once was,"Zachariah Judson Rutledge, a U.S. Davis doctoral student and the lead author on the study, told Newsweek."One of the main factors was there’s an expanding economy in Mexico for both farm work and non-farm.
Data from National agricultural Workers Survey, which measured through 2014, found that 90 percent of California crop farmers came from Mexico and that 56 percent were not in the country legally. While more farmers are incorporating mechanization, Rutledge told Newsweek that these appliances were relatively simple, like handheld pruners."I think in the near future what we’re going to see is things that can make the work force more efficient," he said.
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