In the late 1940's and early 1950's a 290 planted the corn on my uncle's farm....A couple of fields that were plagued with quack grass were check row planted so they could be cultivated lengthwise and crosswise. I cultivated these fields with a Farmall H and mounted 221 2 row cultivator. 100 bushels per acre of ear corn was a good yield in those days. When I started "hobby farming" about 100 acres for corn and soybeans in 1980 I bought a nice used 490 planter and set it up on 36 inch rows and planted my corn and beans with iit and got about 120 dry bushels of dry shelled corn and 30 bushels of beans per acre. All the crops were cultivated with a John Deere H with a 2 row mounted cultivator the first time through and 2 more times through with a 4 row mounted cultivator on my Farmall Super M. No spraying at all. That was 1980 and grain prices were decent so I actually made a few bucks even after hiring a friend with a 4400 combine and a semi truck to harvest and sell my crops. I had adjusted the planter to drop corn on a 6 inch spacing and planted the bears as heavy as the planter could plant. I farmed the same land in 1981 and 1984 but never did better than what I did in 1980. The land was in the PIK program in 1982 and 1983.
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