Boo-Daddy,

Good Post. Would one other technology that would be very beneficial in today's age be RTK guidance?
Easy to lay out the fields, repeatable pass to pass, year to year? All that cultivating (really just one pass to rebuild the ridge) now alot less stressful?

Back in the 70's and 80's I did my share of in-row cultivation in dry beans and corn. We quit the corn when multi-year, multi-replication side x sides suggested we were spending money to get less yield. Dry beans were cultivated until we started to direct cut (clip). Main cause of iron blight in those days was overhead aircraft and any activity the neighbors were doing...

Anybody in your part of the world still on ridges with these aforementioned technologies?

Ken