50% or less of the mass of stalks for their money. They also have to invest in special clothes and protective glasses and boots, to protect workers from dry cane leaves, snakes and spiders. Manual harvest is an expensive part of costs for small size organic cane farms. That is why we're now working in the development af an electrical manual tool to perform the manual cutting of unburnt cane or 'green cane', that may increase yields by 70% and reduce fatigue by 60%. Of course, manual cut of sugar cane is not an adequate task for a human being. it is inhuman, so it has to be performed by machines. And machines that do not devore oil." You're welcome to visit the mud hut. You'll learn all about hard work. Just because you never knew hard work prior to your adventure at "the end of Empire" doesn't mean that you can project that onto everyone. I know hard work, have done hard work, still do hard work and have been through hard times and back again several times in my life thus far. How presumptuous to assume I don't know it. I suppose I'll throw you in with the rest of the lot for not understanding the point. That point centered around the word DONE. Do you understand the definition of it? I'm going to assume you do since you're a former tenured professor....something you never fail to mention at every turn. Done means final..means over....means finished. It doesn't