Dumb Question: Beans in Corn

Fergienewbee · Nov 22, 2013

I have a food plot of corn that did almost nothing. Short plants small ears. I'm wondering if I can run a cultivator through the short, standing stalks in the spring--the snow will knock many down--and then drill beans/cowpeas with normal openers. Or am I better off to plow all the stubble under? The ground is fairly light.

Larry

randallinMo · Nov 22, 2013

Larry, I think a cultivator will make a royal mess by bunching up all those stalks. You'd be better off using a disc or some type of implement that will cut those stalks into smaller pieces. You might brush hog those stalks first then your cultivator will (should)work.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 22, 2013

I did that last year. With the drought the corn didn't amount to much. Ran the cultivator in the spring and planted beans. Had no trouble at all. I'm sure it wouldn't be possible if you had a good crop of corn.

donjr · Nov 22, 2013

Run a mower over it or run a disc over it to chop the stalks up, then drill it...

paul · Nov 23, 2013

A 'good' field cultivator will work on a small plot.

I've run mine through spring corn stalks that the cattle graze.

But it is a fairly new, wide spacing field cultivator.

I will guess you have a much older, closely spaced field cultivator, and it will bunch up the stalks into muskrat piles.

A disk would be the proper spring tool for you use, pass or two and then plant into it. Cut up the stalks into small pieces and you will have the best chance.

Paul

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