Cultivater Question

I am going to plant only 10 acres and have an old John Deere corn cultivater, one that I would describe as a "Go Dig".

Will this cultivater work for soybeans? If not, any suggestions?

You can have different types of shovels on the ones right next to the plant row - mostly they are 1/2 shovels & don't burry much. Sometimes they use hilling shovels, those do throw a ridge. Or even a disk blade to cut dirt away from the row. Dad had used all three at different times...

With young plants, you do need the sheilding. Rolling is better, others will work.

Best to go through every week after crop emerges, generally 3 times around 'here' without chemicals. If you can see weeds from a distance, you waited _way_ too long & lost the battle already.

--->Paul

Sheilds also prevent you from rolling the dirt into the row to bury the weeds between the plants. You are only going to cultivate the beans for the first six weeks at most, long before they start to set pods. If you can, go over them with a tine weeder or light harrow 2-3 days after you plant, definitely before the beans sprout. If you get it right you will kill a lot of the little foxtail and not hurt the beans.

I'm not sure I believe the stuff about losing half the crop on cultivated beans. If you don't keep the beans ahead of the weeds, you aren't going to harvest many beans in any case.