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'Round here most have a 2-3 bar harrow bolted on the back, to leave a level seed bed. Used to be here in the clay of the north we plowed in fall, spring disked 2-3 times, harrowed 1-2 times, planted, then harrowed before the crop broke out of the ground. This is in corn & beans. Now, chisel plow (many different names for that), then field cultivate once in spring, plant, & that is it. Me, I molboard plow the cornstalks. I haven't touched the bean stubble the last 2 years. In spring I field cultivate one time (with an old 22' 45 Vibrashank like Allan shows - mine has 3 bar springtooth on it) and plant. I typically alternate corn & soybeans year to year. A lot less fuel used than in old days. The 45 does have difficulty with bean stubble when the beans were good. I have chopped cornstalks, chisel plowed in fall, then ran the 45 Vibrashank one time in spring & planted. This was on a very small 5 acre plot. I don't know that the 45 could handle the cornstalk trash on a big acreage this way. The new 4500 and up field cultivators have a lot more spacing between rows, and will have 4, sometimes 5 rows of sweeps to put more distance between each shank. They can really handle the trash. All it takes is $$$$. --->Paul
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