Posted by MN Scott on January 22, 2008 at 06:20:29 from (206.9.216.78):
In Reply to: Cultivating Revisited posted by Allan In NE on January 21, 2008 at 21:31:25:
If he has already sprayed it he is wasteing fuel, soil and time. When corn is that tall it has roots across the rows already. If you make a pass with a cultivator running deep you prune those roots and your yeild. Plus if he gets a heavy rain on the slopes you will be able to see the sweep pattern in the hard pan as the top several inchs of soil will be gone. Weeds have changed in the last 20 years with more late emerging species that cultivation just can't handle. Weeds around here come up before the corn and never let up. Driving fast without shields on small plants will cover the corn as well as the weeds. If you wait untill the corn is 4 inches tall to go without sheilds the weeds will already be 10 inches tall. My neighbors organic fields are a prime example of how cultivation only does not work anymore. He spends nearlly two months in the tractor just rotery hoeing and cultivating with 5Bu beans to show for it.
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