Farmers are increasingly concerned about the future for good reason. More and more regulation combined with a sharp decline in available labor causes great concern. The difficulties of using the guest worker program have discouraged farmers from taking advantage of the very willing guest workers. With the huge disparity in labor costs between American and foreign farmers, productivity through labor-saving technology is already critically important. Farmers see eliminating labor as much as possible as the only way forward in this environment. That serves again to limit opportunities for workers who have too few options already.
