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To: shades who wrote (83833)	7/18/2007 3:39:45 PM
From: tdl4138	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 110194

We're getting more and more fruits and vegetables from the likes of Chile and Ecuador because we simply don't have the labor to pick and work the fields. Strawberries in Plant City rotted in the fields...no labor. Immigration reform sounds great...but who do they propose to take the place of the farm workers??? All the laid off construction labor? Same holds true for the citrus industry. A lot of the groves in Fla have fallen to subdivisions simply because you can't compete with foreign prices. Especially when the majority of Fla citrus is for the juice industry and doesn't command a premium. One of the fastest growing industries I'm aware of is the mechanization for picking fruits and vegetables. I've even seen mechanized tomato picking machines. Labor is the biggest problem currently facing agriculture.