I could not find enough good operators to get the row cultivating done in the non-rain windows in the spring.

After cultivating three times.............had as many weeds as ever.  Yields were going to horse-crap.........and weed bank was getting larger.

Even with the weeds and short yields we were getting enough to "match conventional"-----------but I was having to carry three times the labor and things got too chaotic too many times..........essentially rain/weather related.

I suppose I could have spent 100K on a picture-operated row cultivator........but I could not make the pencil work.........not enough room for error.