I raised organic vegetables for three years. During those years I was Organic Valley's biggest sweet corn producer. The best method I found was to plow the field in mid to late April then disk it every ten days until late May early June. With todays seventy-eighty day varieties you can get away with late planting which allows most of the weed seed to germinate and be tilled under before the corn even goes in the ground. The warmer soil temperatures at that time of the year also helps for faster germination of the corn. Seven days after the corn was in the ground I would run a John Deere 400 rotary hoe over the fields to knock down any late germinating weeds. After the corn was Up I would use a cultivator with either rolling or stationary shields until the corn was too tall to cultivate. Obviously removing the shields as the corn got taller. You have to cultivate once a week and drive in the opposite direction each time for this to work.
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Today's Featured Article - What Oil Should I Use? - by Francis Robinson. I keep seein this question pop up over and over again in discussion groups all over the web. As with many things there are often several right answers and a few wrong ones. Some purist I'm sure will disagree to no end with what I will tell you but most of us out here in the real world don't really care do we ? Some of them only bring their noses down out of the air long enough to look down them anyway. If you are like me you are only doing this old tractor stuff because you enjoy it. You
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