Don't quite understand what Allen is saying, perhaps he is thinking a rolling cultivator that has no spaces, works on corn that just broke through the ground, not on standing corn crops where you have to follow the row? He doesn't get much rain, maybe he doesn't get many weeds either, whole different game here where we get 40 inches a year & weeds sprout all summer long.
'Here' it is an art of timing, folks are used to spraying and so they wait until they see weeds - all is lost at that point!
Work the ground, wait a week & hope for a rain, harrow the grownd shallow to kill the weed flush, then first plant. Can't be the 1st one out in the fields planting.
Plant the corn or beans, harrow (drag) it when the sprout is starting to crack the soil, corn can even be sticking out a bit. Kills all the hair weeds that you don't see yet.
Then row crop cultivate every 7 days later, if you see weeds you waited too long.
You are always killing little bitty hair like weed sprouts. Big weeds don't die well. If you got to big weeds, you are losing.
The last time or 2 you can drive faster, throw dirt around the crop and try to smother those weeds in the row. The first time, you are crawling slow, or you smother all the crop too.
As mentioned, this comes about the same time as doing hay, so it comes down to time. You have enough people to get it all done around the rain too?
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