I worked for the co-op agricultural/horticultural division every summer from my mid teens through to leaving university. The wages were crap, the working conditions were medieval and safe working practices were eschewed for greater productivity. I had several close scrapes caused by poorly maintained machinery, all three of them potentially fatal but it was shrugged off by management.
Having said that, I enjoyed the bon homie, the satisfaction gained form a hard day's graft and: trout, game and pub lunches in the pub just down the road in exchange for fruit and vege that I nicked from the site.