Other possible non-skilled ag tasks could include picking fruit/vegetables, milking cows/goats, feeding animals, cleaning animal pens, working with bales…idk there’s just a lot of things they can do with very little skill or experience. Lots of menial tasks.

For many crops, picking fruit, for example, is an immensely skill-oriented task in order to do it fast enough to be profitable.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago

Hence when they are "migrant" workers who keep making their way north all harvest season to keep harvesting the crops as they become ready. A lot of fruits have a narrow harvest window of just a few days, and you can't wait around for a bunch of novices try to figure out how to harvest them.

[–] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 day ago

I've done some fruit picking ((some)). I'm approaching it from the grossly underpaid prison labor perspective; it is easier to make it profitable when labor costs are low. We're not giving these guys even $10/hr.