Summary
The ground trembles on Mike Young's almond farm as the forklift- sized yellow machine grabs a tree trunk and shakes it hard. Nuts rain like hailstones to the ground, where they'll lie until another machine comes to sort them.
Young once grew tomatoes, cucumbers and cotton. But in recent years, he's shifted almost exclusively to nuts as worldwide demand has made the crop more profitable.See the full content of this document
Extract
Automation Increases During Recession As Jobs Are Cut
There's another reason for abandoning row crops: Employees are a headache. Automation means Young no longer needs large crews of farmworkers to plant or harvest -- and no more worrying about status, pay or benefits.
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