Do you call it plowing corn or cultivating

SteveM C/IL wrote: ...so how many of you "old timers" harrowed corn? Dad talked about it.It would tear out sprouting weeds and leave most of the corn.That was in the horse days. Don't know that it continued in tractor days.The WC on steel could do so much more in a day than 2 teams.For the younger guys,you had to switch out teams every little bit/so often to let them rest. Took a long time to work a little ground. I've not been there but heard about it.

A few years before I moved down to the farm I'm on now (father in laws place) they had quit raising corn, because of the labor intensity of it. Then a few years after I was there, the brother in law decided we should raise corn again, but went to round up ready corn. I was petty enthused about it, until the day that my father in law decided he had to harrow the corn. I wanted to beat him. He was sure that he was going to get some of the weeds. My thoughts were: #1 it's RR corn, and we are going to spray it anyway. #2 How's a harrow with spike teeth every six inches, and the spike being only half inch thick going to "get any weeds", and #3 if the harrow teeth DO get weeds, they are obviously going to get some corn too. I think all of the above held true, and I am still pissed off at that old school mentality. Darrel

SteveM C/IL wrote: Cultivate..."cullivate"

We cultivated it until the last tie, that was called laying it by.

 We called last pass with Cultivator HILLING ,H Farmall 4 th gear ,wide open ,if you where paying attention .

In eastern Ne bottoms it's amazing how many times we went over the corn.  It was planted with a lister. If the weeds got bad we used a "go devil" which used rolling discs and mounded the ridges even more.  Then they were harrowed down or rotary hoed and cultivated 2 more times.  Sometimes "laying it by" had to be done when it was hot because the corn was half-way up the radiator.  Had to be alert in 3rd gear on a WD or WD 45.  This was obviously before round-up. 

...here in Illinois our corn grows on the cob.....

Edited by SteveM C/IL - 24 Nov 2018 at 10:51pm

True Lou. He's a lot like tool time Tim Taylor.

Fred in Pa wrote:  We called last pass with Cultivator HILLING ,H Farmall 4 th gear ,wide open ,if you where paying attention .

Plowed with a mule when  i was small.When time to lay by dad would put a large sweep on the single foot plow and run a center furrow  between the rows.