It's bull. If you want a job done, hire enough people and manage your labor so you don't have to work everyone into the ground!
You could not afford to eat. Every farm everywhere, Daylight to dark. Don't like it, work somewhere else.
No other industry gets away with that kind of abuse. None! Except the armed forces, maybe... but they're a special case and always have been.
That abuse you're talking about has another word out here in the hinterlands: Reality. Sure it don't pay much... but then money ain't the point. Living is, and that's life. And any farmer or rancher will tell you the same.
We could probably solve a good chunk of our illegal alien labor if we stopped thinking all-work, every-waking-hour is an acceptable way of life. It destroys people!
Not in the country it don't. It makes them alive.
Not a damn thing wrong with hard work, or hard play when you can.
And that ain't just ag... Any/every field I have ever been in, the folks that matter are the ones who go the extra mile and do the job right, whatever it takes.
Worry about the work and the money will come.