Is farming in danger in the UK?

I just read an article about the difficulties British farmers will face once free movement of labor is restricted, it implies that once the continental Europeans, mostly from Eastern countries fail to show up crops will probably rot in the ground because of the shortage of workers to pick them.

There were a sizable amount of comments some saying the article was right others saying that the British could easily cover this shortage by using the unemployed, one of them going as far as to say that communities with people on the dole should make these people work and their wages paid to the community and then given back in their dole payments. This one actually made me laugh, it is forced labor and anyone with any sense should know that a person forced to do something will not do it right.

But anyway, getting back to the main reason for this post, what the article fails to mention is that the people who do this kind of work are professionals at it. Here in Honduras the chief crop is coffee, sometimes so much is produced that the farmers offer a premium for picking and even set up kitchens for the workers. The newspapers write these wordy articles about people complaining about not having jobs and here they are offered an opportunity to make some good money with the only negative thing being they have to move to a rural area, and even then the transportation is paid for them.

This sounds great, but the truth is, this kind of work is paid depending on what you pick, if you are a newbie you probably won't even make 5 dollars in one day of hard work, which even here is a lousy amount of money. You see coffee pickers are professionals, some of them make up to 80 dollars a day (that's a lot of money here) but these guys work at this all year long and they migrate, these guys are from Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua and they move to all of these countries as the picking seasons don't coincide, which is why they work almost all year long.

I believe the same thing happens in the UK, sure you can put anyone to work it's just manual labor, but actually it calls for skilled hands, I don't think the UK can replace the EU workers unless of course they are able to mechanize the picking completely, but this would also affect jobs held by locals so unemployment would go up.