Posted by Large-scale Iowan on January 22, 2008 at 05:08:47 from (75.104.160.58):
In Reply to: Cultivating Revisited posted by Allan In NE on January 21, 2008 at 21:31:25:
Was about the last to cultivate here--believed all the things about aeration, creating a dust mulch, growth spurt right after, etc. Finally gave it up do to inexperienced operators covering plants.Wasn't cultivating for weed control, as herb has them licked. We have done stand counts and standard deviation of spacing measurements for about a decade. When we stopped cultivating, our final stands improved, and our end rows began yielding nearly the same as the regular rows. With cultivation, the end rows always yielded at least 10% less. First pass in small corn was NEVER above 3 mph--took forever, caused soil erosion, cost thousands in labor, thousands in sweeps, plus combine and trucks had to bounce over ridges. My herb bill is over $50,000. Row-crop cultivators are worth scrap price here. I have a perfect 16 row that I gave over $13,000 for in my shed that needs to be cut up for scrap--I just can't make myself do it.
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