$5000 divided by 120 acres equals $41.66 per acre. Thats a bunch of money. Maybe $10/A to $12/A of that went to whoever did the spraying and the rest was herbicide cost of $30/A to $32/A .
Buying your own sprayer has about the best payback of any machine you can buy for the farm. You herbicide cost just seems a little high to me but I don't know what it costs in your area.
If you do decide to cultivate, putting down something preplant, like Harness will help with the grass, but you'll still have the large broadleaves to deal with. You might get by cultivating once this way.
Before dad used herbicides he would cultivate three times and then he made my sister and me walk the corn in 95 degree July temps, to pull cocleburs. He paid us a penny a plant. That was 45 years ago and today I still dread going in a corn field in the middle of the summer. To me, herbiciede are a godsend.Jim
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