Chemical weed control started in the 50's and was excessive by the 70's with many far more noxious chemicals than are allowed today. And if you go back to before chemicals your talking about yields that are a fraction of todays, in our area 50-70 hi corn compared to near 200 today. As for the soil, when we get rain like last month there is literally no base to drive on, tractors sink to the axle, so cultivating would be impossible. That would allow the weeds, which grow extra fast under those conditions to take over. This year there would be no crop if not for the chemical weed control. That is why I don't think this type plans could be sucessful here. In dryer areas where cultivating is more reliable, it may very well be a good plan. I've actually considered trying something like this on my farm in the future. We shall see if it ever comes about tho. I'm thinking along the lines of some type of herbicide handed on the row at planting with cultivating to clean the rows. Of course chemicals will always be available if things go south.
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Today's Featured Article - Tractor Traction - by Chris Pratt. Our first bout with traction problems came when cultivatin with our Massey-Harris Pony. Up till then, this tractor had been running a corn grinder and pulling a trailer. It had new unfilled rear tires and no wheel weights. The garden was already sprouting when we hooked up the mid-mount shovel cultivators to the Pony. The seed bed was soft enough that the rear end would spin and slowly work its way to the downhill side of the gardens slight incline. From this, we learned our lesson sinc
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