cultivator blight
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Topic: cultivator blight
Posted By: Dean(IA)
Subject: cultivator blight
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2020 at 9:18pm
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I had never heard the term, 'cultivator blight" which referred to plowing out hills of corn, until the last few years. Cultivating corn cross ways after it had been planted with a check wire was pretty apt to result in cultivator blight. On an earlier thread, plowing corn (cultivating) was discussed. In Fayette County, Iowa , when I was young, we called it plowing corn. Must be a midwest thing.  ------------- Dean(IA) |
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Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 31 Oct 2020 at 11:44pm
| That or "iron worm"...cross cultivating checked corn shouldn't be a problem...dad never said anything negative about it. It was known as "plowing" here too. |
Posted By: Herb(GA)
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2020 at 12:40am
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My opinion is both of you are correct; in hillier ground (neIA) pull type cultivators will slide downhill several inches resulting in uprooting of corn or other row crop; does not occur in flatter grounds (Shelbyville, IL). Cultivator was the implement name in central KS. Our two row horse drawn cultivator was horse drawn; Dad converted it to tractor drawn. The operator siting behind the cultivator pushed on foot pedals to turn the two large cultivator wheels a few inches to the left or right. In central KS an implement with many disc blades was called a disc. Here in nGA such implement is called a harrow or disc harrow. Herb(GA)
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Posted By: tomNE
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2020 at 7:19am
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We now call them topsoil eliminators! But in the early days, not many options besides them, excisted! ------------- AC from the start of my families farming career till the end! |
Posted By: Fred in Pa
Date Posted: 01 Nov 2020 at 8:42am
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WE used a Spike Harrow to break up hard crust ground just as corn was coming up . ------------- He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless ,still dead. If all else fails ,Read all that is PRINTED. |
Posted By: Orange Blood
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2020 at 1:20pm
In my family (Central Nebraska) cultivator blight is an operator error, not a gravity issue  ------------- Still in use: HD7 WC C CA WD 2-WD45 WD45LP WD45D D14 3-D17 D17LP 2-D19D D19LP 190XTD 190XTLP 720 D21 220 7020 7030 7040 7045 3-7060 Projects: 3-U UC 2-G 2-B 2-C CA 7-WC RC WDLP WF D14 D21 210 7045 N7 |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 03 Nov 2020 at 11:49pm
| In southern IA we plowed corn too. My grandpa from northern IA always called it cultivating corn. He retired from farming and always came down to help plant and cultivate. |
Posted By: AC7060IL
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2020 at 6:55am
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Interesting. Central IL “old terms” (1960-1980s) “Row cultivating” was our term used to describe corn or soybean seedling rows being cultivated. You’d consider it good to do 1 pass thru corn & 2 passes thru soybeans. Problem fields like weedy soybeans would also get walked to cut out weeds with a weed hook or hand pull weeds. ”Field cultivating” was our term for field tillage before planting crops. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2020 at 9:10am
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We cultivated corn up through the 80's. My Grandpa used to come up and stay a few weeks in the summer and he did most of it. Had JD 40 and mounted 2 row cultivator. When he got too old to do it anymore, Dad bought a 3 pt. 4 row unit. I remember my first time cultivating at about age 14, dad never showed me a thing, just said you lower it to the ground and go and watch what you're doing, pretty straight forward. OK. So off I go, did good, then I'd be pulling out corn, and I'd adjust, and then be OK, then pulling out corn, I'd go up and adjust, had a heck of a time. What really had me puzzled was Dad had said everything should be good to go adjustment wise. He came home from work and I was up at the shop adjusting again, obviously more than a little frustrated. He probably saw all the dug up corn on the way home from work too, probably not real happy! That's when I learned that the outside shovel goes back down the same row when you turn around!!! Oops. |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2020 at 11:08am
Same terminology where I grew up...
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AC7060IL wrote:Posted By: victoryallis
Date Posted: 04 Nov 2020 at 8:58pm
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Since a tike it’s been cultivating corn never heard the term plowing corn till year or so ago on Agtalk. If I’m cultivating anything someone better be paying me a premium. Cultivated green beans and sunflowers. We no till a chunk of our corn so it’s not feasible. Besides to much root pruning and stirring it again just germinates more weed seed. ------------- 8030 and 8050MFWD, 7580, 3 6080's, 160, 7060, 175, heirloom D17, Deere 8760 |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2020 at 4:01am
| i always told dad that lightening must have struck there! |
Posted By: Calvin Schmidt
Date Posted: 05 Nov 2020 at 6:56am
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My job in my early teens was cultivating (called scuffling in Canada) corn with a mid mount two row on a D 14. Blight was common when I couldn't keep my eyes open. Years later I started growing dark red kidney beans which required building a hill on the row so the plant could be knife cut (pulled) at harvest. Usually took two passes. My machine was a D-19 with a 6 row rear mount. Worked well but had to install 14.9 x 38" rears for the second pass. A D-17 IV diesel arrived and now I used half as much fuel. The problem was that on a D-17 the front wheel spacing was either 58" or 62" which was a problem when the planter wheels were spaced 60". The solution was D-19 front wheels or finally wheels from a Gleaner A both with a different offset to get 60". Eliminated a lot of cultivator blight! Rears were changed to 14.9 x 38". Gets a little boring after 250 acres with two passes per year but we were usually well paid at harvest. ------------- Nothing is impossible if it is properly financed |