Todays chemical weed controls works much better than mechanical cultivating ever did, especially in wet years.
The suggestion of a Farmall C with a two row front mounted cultivator sounds ideal if you want to cultivate for only five acres of corn. My uncle had that setup in the 1960's, great visibility, economical, individual hydraulic control of each row. He didn't have a 2 point hitch on the back, I dont know if a 2 point would interfere with tall corn in narrow rows.
I liked a front mounted cultivator on a narrow front end tractor for close cultivating small soybeans. The higher axle clearance on narrow front tractors also let us do a late fast "lay-by" cultivation when the corn was too tall to use a wide front end tractor anymore. If it was wet enough for mud to ball up in a narrow front end it was way too wet to be cultivating anyway, you were not killing the grass and weeds, just rearranging them in the mud.
We used a John Deere T4 cultivator on a 3010 and 4020. After the mounting brackets, front rockshaft and cylinders were in place you could take it off or put in on in about 10 minutes.
For a rear mounted cultivator a wide front end helps a lot. Put a mark on the front end beam right over the row to elliminate most of the need to look back at the cultivator. It worked well on hills and curving contour rows.
The rear mounted cultivators with "S-tine" or vibrating shanks needed some speed to get the shanks vibrating properly. Rolling shields let you move faster over small plants.
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