In 1930s to 1950s there was a lot of migrant farm labor for various crops to be picked- cotton was one crop. 'Black' migrant picking crews were a large part of the migrants northeast to south starting with New England apple harvest to southern citrus and cotton. WW2 interrupted labor supply, machines for some war needs got better and the hand pickers were replaced by mechanical cotton pickers and lots of small combines and corn pickers developed in those years. Canning company contractors around central Wisconsin have pea and bean pickers, sweet corn pickers and less need for local youth to do the special harvests. The Mex workers do some of the special picking, the local city 'blacks' and white druggies won't go to garden crops to pick. Farmers markets around Madison have old whites, Amish, some Asian vendors and some Hispanics, a few of the 'blacks' but mostly older and their kids. Mild Teasing Alert! some of the 'blacks kids say why do plantation nigg** work, food in grocery store easier. Sigh! IF all veggie harvest gets done by machine, then lots of old line varieties will decrease. Couple posters noted the short harvest, top crop bean varieties that are picked by machine and reduced total yields--but those varieties are pickable by machine so no labor disputes to interrupt harvest. Garden bean picking with long harvest time varieties- hand or maybe a Japanese or Chinese small machine might be made soon- Japan has a minor farm labor shortage and lots of engineers. RN
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