[HelenJS22]

Thinking further about the possibility of having to go to the market to hire someone to harvest for you, it would be an absolutely certainty that some one would go to your farm, harvest only the few crops that they require for a quest, then leave you with the rest un harvested.

On the other hand, if you had a mixed farm, as many of us do now, there would be no guarantee with a market hiree that they would only harvest the crop you asked them to do.

I know that the requirement would be set up in good faith by the devs, but there are plenty of people in the market who are totally unscrupulous, but you normally can't pick them until it is too late.