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It’s a fair question. It doesn’t matter what crop you are doing, there are going to be a lot of people involved. Grapes require a LOT of manpower. Just for picking. Same with strawberries and cherries. Also corn. Yeah, the bulk of the corn is going to be harvested by combine, but that requires a driver for the combine and a few trucks. Not to mention people to organize containers to ship the harvested corn. Then there has to be a team of people managing the harvested corn as it comes in so you don’t have wasted time when the full trucks show up. Then you have the people who maintained the corn, de tasseled it, pulled milkweed and the like when the plants were below 10 inches. Then you have the folks who picked your sweet corn all season long to supply your vegetable stand or local supermarket, and someone to manage that produce and transport it. Someone has to manage diesel consumption, and someone (many someones) have to go through the fields after harvest to ensure there won’t be problems in the spring that will delay your planting. Someone to manage what’s going to happen to the corn once it is harvested and packaged for shipping…I could go on. Folks who have not had farming experience don’t grasp how farming truly is a communal venture. The farmer down the road will let you use his truck and drive it for you and you’ll use your combine for his fields. Or you’ll buy equipment together. It is astounding how many people are involved in getting an ear of corn or a strawberry to your table. And that’s not a criticism, just like you drop a farmer into an accountants office and they have no idea how that system works. And with food many times ignorance is bliss.

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