That's fair. I grew up in rural Illinois, where farmers didn't use field labor, probably because the crops didn't call for it. They worked their own acreage with machines, and all had multiple daughters around my age who could also work those machines. Man, I miss farming with the neighbors.
Much of the land round me was divided into 500+ acre farms, often heading to 1000+. I think I can count on one finger that number of small/tenant farmers I knew.
We had labour agencies (gangmasters) who had permanent recruitment offices in Poland, the Balts, Hungary and Czech Republic.