I recommend this Marketplace story: Strange Bedfellows: What farms and tech startups have in common. Reporter Kai Ryssdal came to Washington and talked to farmers in the Yakima Valley and Auburn about their operations and labor needs. Then he went to a startup in Seattle.

The common factor noted in the story's headline is immigration, and how important it is to both industries.

Two of Washington’s key industries are agriculture and tech, and they also happen to be the two largest employers of immigrants in the state. The state may not matter to the presidential election, but the election certainly matters to the state. . . .

Michael Schutzler is CEO of the Washington Technology Industry Association, a trade association that represents the state’s 9,000 tech companies. He said the tech and agriculture industries are fighting the same battle.

“We are strange bedfellows with the agricultural industry in the state. When I speak to my counterparts in the agricultural side, we see the world the same way,” Schutzler said. “This is a world of abundance. This is a world about creation. The immigrant workforce creates opportunity sets for the domestic workforce. It doesn’t take it away, it actually creates it.”

It's worth reading or listening to.