Just as someone who's had to do the whole Farmer's Market thing for a while, (on the Capitol Square in Madison Wisconsin), I think I should point out that many

Just as someone who's had to do the whole Farmer's Market thing for a while, (on the Capitol Square in Madison Wisconsin), I think I should point out that many many organic farmers do indeed use some fairly high tech tools and techniques to simplify the work. Different producers are using everything from the ultra high tech sort of "farm in a shipping container" systems inside of an area like Madison, to greenhouses that integrate natural climate control techniques out in places like Verona or Sun Prairie area, to gps assisted tilling out in areas like Spring Green. I think people would be surprised at how high tech agriculture has become. The original poster is correct when (s)he asserts that there would not be much meaningful work for an unskilled laborer in most sectors of modern agriculture. But that's not a bad thing, that's a good thing.