!tags:: #lit✍ #status🚦/🔴red
!links:: Automation, Agriculture, Farming, Agriculture, Migrants, Labor

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Reference

• Reducing the Risk in Farming with Automation and Robotics - ASME

Notes

• Migrant workers aren't taking American jobs; they're taking the jobs that Americans don't want.
  • "About 73 percent of the farm labor force is foreign-born, Akkas said. These laborers are seasonal, and half of them come on H2A visas, while the other half are undocumented. According to a May 29 article in Insurance Journal, as many as 2.7 million people in the U.S. are hired as farmworkers each year, including migrant, seasonal, year-round, and guest-program workers as reported by the Migrant Clinicians Network."
• Labor is one of the biggest cost drivers there is
  • "If you were to ask a dairy producer today, their single biggest risk is not having enough labor to milk the cows, Huyser said. Since labor is one of the main drivers in controlling price, you start to look at ways to mitigate labor risk and how to move your operation forward."