Cultivator resistant weeds?

muckfarmer · Mar 16, 2019

In the last couple of years with waterhemp
and others roundup resistant, profits end
up in spraydope. Had success with beans and
corn which were cultivated both in weeds Nd
white mold in beans. Used to (like
everyone) cultivate everything and sprayed
off the cultivator too. Also eliminating
need to spend money spraying volunteer
corn. Left a few weeds but also left some
profit. Anyone else tried digging out
cultivating again?

Bruce from Can. · Mar 16, 2019

Some have even bought new semi mounted roll over ploughs, and will plough a field, once every 5-6 years. Trying to battle weeds and compaction. Don?t see much inter row cultivating

caterpillar guy · Mar 16, 2019

I've thought about it. I would need an old front mount cultivator for 11 20 inch rows. The hills will kill a 3pt one. Tractor side hill movement will take the crop out. Front mount will work good.

tomNE · Mar 16, 2019

cultivating and plowing send all my topsoil down the creek. I'll keep my topsoil, that's where the profit is. In case your wondering, i watched what a plow and cultivator did to my farm and know how long it takes to build up organic matter and stabilize my growing zones!

4520BW · Mar 16, 2019

Sure wish there was cultivator resistant corn when I was a kid, sure lost a lot of corn to cultivator blight. Was not bad with a 4 row but when we got an 8 I sure did some damage.

JD Seller · Mar 16, 2019

I will second about cultivating sending topsoil down the river. I can very well remember ruts washed out so deep on the end rows that a mounted corn picker would bottom out.

If you rotate your herbicides and apply it when the weeds are at the correct size/stage you can get good control. The lazy and cheap farmers that kept just applying RR one time with nothing else ruined the effectiveness of RR on many weeds. Even better many around here bragged about how they cut the rate way below the recommended control rates on problem weeds. Then the same ones complained in just a few years how they had resistant weeds.

Then also remember when the weather does not cooperate and you get three weeks of HOT wet weather. Fields so wet that you can not cultivate and then weeds 2-3 foot tall. Yes I remember well how cultivating worked for weed control.

flying belgian · Mar 16, 2019

I cultivate for the organic neighbor. Works about as good as it ever did.

rusty6 · Mar 16, 2019

Yes, cultivating worked well for me for years. The soil loss after a thunderstorm was the biggest risk. I still do a little but it is combined with chem fallow to reduce the risk. $4.50 per gallon diesel fuel and $16 cultivator shovels make roundup+ 2-4D a more attractive option. Plus twitch grass takes multiple operations to kill with tillage. One good shot of roundup will take care of it for less time and money.

john in la · Mar 16, 2019

Sugar cane farmers still plow hill up and cultivate every row.

But they do not use tile or plant the headlands.
In fact the headlands are higher then the row bottom so no water can run out eroding the topsoil away.

They use cross cut drainage into a mid field ditch that can be dug back out and any erosion returned to the field.

Of course this extra work does not allow them to spend 6 months a year at the coffee shop either.

Traditional Farmer · Mar 16, 2019

One place I cut hay has about a 100 acres of fields with contour strips set up in the 1930's,when the owners were row cropping some they'd alternate planting strips with
small grains,corn and hay although it was somewhat hilly very little erosion.

muckfarmer · Mar 16, 2019

It does take more time but I guess sports are too important to miss during the summer for some. This spraydope application is getting expensive and out of control. Not a lot of money left as it is.

Olyj1947 · Mar 16, 2019

It's called iron blight!

SVcummins · Mar 17, 2019

Doug Anderson · Mar 17, 2019

Wiregrass.

notjustair · Mar 17, 2019

We always called it ?sledding? - as in we need to sled the feed (sedan silage). It was a four row rear mounted disaster on our 966 and heaven help you if you took any out. You might have cost a mouthful of leaves for some old lame cow.

I don?t miss those days or the sore neck from them. I know of some guys around here that spend their life in the sprayer and go over each field enough to wipe out any profit. I only go once post planting unless I need to spot spray, so herbicide is the way to go for me. It sure saves soil.

There have been times I?ve been tempted to find an old cultivator for emergency situations or a massive weed outbreak in some small field. I would probably use it more than the rotary hoe I parked 15 years ago.

RGMartin · Mar 17, 2019

I bought one yesterday for emergencies. I only grow conventional, and have relatively flat ground. Not going to cover all my ground with it, but if I have a problem, it will be nice to know it is there.

muckfarmer · Mar 17, 2019

Yep. That would be one!

SVcummins · Mar 18, 2019

Sure is funny farmers have been trying to stop erosion and still grow a crop since the dust bowl finally get figured out what works then some idiot from town comes a long to say oh you can?t do it that way we read something on an anti farming Facebook page so we know how to run a farm . you need to go back to the moldboard plow and row crop cultivator. Then when all the dirt washes down the river it?s the farmers fault because they didn?t try to stop erosion

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