If you don't use spray, you need to be killing the weeds with iron before you see them....
As other mention, work the ground & plant into it. If you get lucky on timing, disk your growund, catch a rain, wait 3 days, harrow the ground to bust up that first flush of weeds & plant right after the harrow. Takes a bit of luck tho, this will make a lot less weeds as you get the first flush dead.
As the corn is just starting to lift the ground, harrow it - you can use a spike harrow, or a rotory hoe, or a spring tine harrow. This will not hurt the corn, and it will put a bunch of white roots on the surface - these are little weeds trying to sprout.
Then every 7 days, cultivate it. First time you will need to barely move or have rolling shields on the cultivator or dirt will cover the corn. If you start seeing 3-4 inch high weeds, you are lost. You need to be using the cultivator in good looking ground.
The last time through (3rd or so cultivation) you want to drive a little faster or change the shanks some, to throw dirt between the corn plants & smother some of the weeds growing there.
When the corn is thigh high it sure isn't hard to hoe out the troublesome weeds from an acre of corn - if you worked it right with the cultivator to start with.
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