Cultivating corm

Flying Dollar Farm · Jul 1, 2008

I was just in the field cutltivating corn this evening. John Deere 3020 with 6 row culitvater. Not needed for weeds, RR corn, just wondering if any one else still cultivates? Just seems to me a field looks better after!

Floyd A tn · Jul 1, 2008

I cultivate corn just before rains, if we get any.. Otherwise i try and not open the ground so the sun can dry it out..

jjamna · Jul 1, 2008

I raise between 5 & 10 acres of corn a year to feed. I cultivate, I am using a H Farmall with a 2 row cultivator. I also use Open pollinated corn so it is Not Round Up ready.

Wisconsin Cowman · Jul 1, 2008

I cultivate all of my corn with a 6 row and an Oliver 1755. Tractor has been cultivating corn since it was bought new.

RAW in IA · Jul 1, 2008

Alot of guys are cultivating this year who haven't cultivated for years. Ground got real hard after all the rain we had last month. Some places the cultivator won't even go in the ground.

thurlow · Jul 1, 2008

How big is the corn? It it's small, you're bringing up more seed to germinate; if it's larger, you're bringing up feeder roots. What's the purpose of the cultivating.......just to make the field more visually appealing????? Just got diesel to burn???

Anonymous-0 · Jul 1, 2008

We still cultivate with a 8 row buffalo we put on nitrogen with it, we have to cultivate though and ditch with gravity irrigation.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 1, 2008

I cultivate all my corn. It spreads around nitrogen and makes it mobile so roots can more easily get to it, it releases nitrogen into air so leaves can inhale it.(that is the reason corn looks better about 6 hours after you cultivate) it closes cracks in ground so it doesn't dry out as fast. It airiates ground and mixes oxcigen into ground. (plant roots need oxigin just like fish need oxegin ) The fuel it takes to cultivate is more then made up for in the savings from only having to put down one pass of herbicide. It also hills the corn up so brace roots have more to hold on to which keeps corn standing in fall. Oh and it kills weeds.

Lanse · Jul 1, 2008

hybrid but not RR. We just use the kubota with a 1 row

RobMD · Jul 2, 2008

Round up ready fields basically turn into floodplains when it rains just a little bit. Not to mention the fact that RR cornfields are about as hard as tarmac mid-season.

Tradititonal Farmer · Jul 2, 2008

I get premium prices for non GM crops so I culltivate.Cultivation opens the top crust so rain goes in better and oxygen can get to the roots.Also encourages feeder roots to go deeper into the ground.Pull dirt away from the plants first time around then throw it into them the 2nd time covering small weeds in the row

Dan-IA · Jul 2, 2008

we quit cultivating when we started with RR beans and callisto on corn a couple years ago. Decided cultivating is cheaper than chemical but hurts yields because it prunes roots.

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