Farm owner: Without immigrants 'this town would die'

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20. Which leads me to my next point

A hundred years from now, will human beings get their food from stoop labor? No, there will be machines to do all of the grunt work. If farmers and ranchers cannot find workers for livable wages, somebody will develop robots to plant the crops, tend to them, and harvest them. We've made significant advances in robotics, and with a larger market for agricultural robots, they'd be efficient, reliable, and affordable. Best of all, they'd probably be mostly solar powered.

Sub-minimum pay for a docile workforce that cannot complain to government authorities is pushing that date somewhat further into the future than it would normally occur. And, just like everybody adjusted to rising gasoline prices, they'll do the same with the prices of food items that need to rise to pay for agri-bots.