I watched deer many times stomp on a watermelon and then eat the heart out of it..and go to another one with the coons followin along behind. Picked many tomatoes cause the Eastern Shore of Md where I grew up was the garden for Baltimore and Washington. Lots of canneries around back then too. Hated pickin cucumbers for pickles and was allergic mildly to tomatoes..but that weren't no nevermind as they said. Just had it to do. Those same canneries that used to be everywhere have almost all gone out of business or just closed. Farmers had too much work into picking all the crops. Now ya have to hire Mexicans or whatever and the gummit makes you provide housing that is better than a lot of farmers have. Too much regulation and it wasn't just caused by the gummit.. Liberal do gooders got involved. I remember all the infighting very well. If'n it hadn't been for the ACLU and other groups it may have stayed profitable to stay in truck crops. One farmer friend in Md quit growing because of gummit regulations 3 yrs ago..another one last year. The first grew sweet corn and squash and the other grew aparagus and sweet corn as well as potatoes.. The first put half his ground in the CReP program and rents the rest out to a grain farmer. The second is growing small grain and about 40 acres of edible soybeans for the Japs...but ya still use a combine on them. Sorry GOB..but ya can't go back and it just ain't gonna happen.
