Great to see you doing things the "Old Fashioned Way". Just the way we used to do it and now our cultivator sits in the machine shed for years and years. Thanks for a great channel!
Good point about using cultivation as a way to avoid expensive and potentially harmful chemicals. We have a Brillion 6 row 30'' rowcrop cultivator that we use on our Allis Chalmers 190XT. It's actually been awhile since we had to spray herbicide on any of our rowcrops due to cultivating. My grandpa used to say that if you cultivated corn and the next day it rained, you could already tell that the corn had grown some :) nice video and introduction again
it's amazing how the corn reacts after being cultivated also. I built up a tool bar very similar to your setup and mounted a 100gal tank to top dress 28% at same time and that gives a good shot in the arm to the corn as well. nice videos.
I haven't grown corn in a few years, just hay. I used to cultivate almost every year. It seems to give the corn a big kick. It seems to take off and grow right after I did it. I used a 4020 with a six row. It was a good combination of equipment to use.
Glad to see your still cutivating. Back in the 60s and 70s I was using a 2 row, side attached JD cultivator mounted on a JD 60. The JD 10 series was the new state of the art tracors. Like 1010 2010 3010 4010. 4 row cultivators were available.
+Lee Peterson Lee you and I had a similar experience. I was a kid in the 60's and 70's and used my dad's JD 620 with a mounted 4 row cultivator. Driving through the field cultivating corn with the tractor radio blasting, the Kansas City Royals baseball games, so loud our neighbor a half mile down the row could hear it. Ha!!
When we planted corn years ago we never sprayed it at all we just cultivated it and it worked good I still have the tractor and cultivators if I ever needed to use them
We do it the same way on our farm. It saves quite a bit of money compared to hitting it again with herbicides. Did you take the shields off the cultivator because I didn't see any? We use a John Deere 4440 on a 6 row. It takes awhile because we go a little slower and it takes out any point rows you have. It is also best to do it in a drought because the cracks will be sealed and it conserves moisture. That is what my grandpa always said.
We used to cultivate with a 3020 narrow front and mounted cultivators. We had a neighbor who had a 806 I think and a set of cultivators that mounted to the very front they had to be 12 or 8 rows that thing was massive.
I am a city girl and have no experience farming. I watch your vlog so that I can understand how the farming community works. It’s fascinating. I had taken it all for granted. Thank you for sharing a world I’ve never known. I was shocked at how precise you are with the tractor to not rip out the plants. Did you sacrifice a few rows when you were learning to drive? I’m sure you learned to drive a tractor at quite a young age. I hear that’s common.
Ryan, just a thought you may appreciate if you continue to row crop cultivate. We put spikes on the planter in the wheel track rows, and when cultivating switched the steer tires to single rib tires. That spiked row held the steer axle right in place and made cultivating less stressful. It works really well. Pretty easy to nod off after a half dozen hours of cultivating, lol...
@@thomasfranklin4307 more of a steel bar, closer to a chisel plow than an s-tine. You're leaving something a single rib steer tire will follow in a future row crop cultivating pass.
Used to love cultivating cotton and grain sorghum and stuff back when we were row cropping... pretty relaxing day in the field, for the most part. We ran two different types of cultivators... we'd usually do our first cultivation right after the stuff came up, when it was about 3-4 inches tall... for that one we used a Lilliston rolling cultivator, which had gangs with curved steel-tined wheels (about five of them stacked up in a gang like disk blades, about 2-3 inches apart) running on short disk axles with ball bearings on each end. They were adjustable for angle and pitch to match the 40 inch row beds. There was a single big sweep (about a 14 inch sweep) in the back on a solid shank (Those vibra-tine S-tine cultivators wouldn't hold up in our hard clay!) and we always mounted a pair of "ears" on the mounting bolt behind the sweep where it bolted onto the shank so that the cultivator threw more dirt up onto the beds. Our other cultivator was a Deere RM. It used two gangs per row, one with 3 sweeps and the other with two, for five sweeps per row middle (on 40 inch rows). Generally ran about 6 inch sweeps on the front 4 shanks and a 12-14 inch sweep on the rearmost shank with the "ears" on it to throw the dirt out of the middle and up onto the beds. We cultivated with it the second (and sometimes third) times as needed. Later! OL J R :)
Man, that was one peaceful video to watch. Thank you. What a seriously small margin of error you have with those wheels riding so close to those plants, eh? I had the honor of working on a friend's organic farm a number of years back. No equipment involved, just weeding and harvesting, mostly...some planting. Oddly, what stands out most was the use of copper to inhibit bacteria on the tomato plants and coyote urine to keep the deer away. That coyote urine was dark and NASTY smelling. Still, it was easily one of the more soul-satisfying experiences of my life. Such HARD work in such an AWESOME environment. Guess it's a trade off. Every human should be required to work on a farm for at least a year or two. Salud, dude!!
Old fashioned way :).Cultivating is used here 2 or 3 times in soybean,corn,sunflower,sugar beet ,etc.Only large farmers use less cultivating ,but more chemical usage.
Love the S-tine cultivator. One of my favorite things to run. They get a little problematic when you put them in black dirt on a 260 horse tractor though.
How wide are the corn and bean strips?Is the strip farming a common practice in your area?Where do you guys see the advantages compared to farm whole fields with one crop?
jaydee8850 They're supposed to be around 90 feet but they vary. Contours were popular but more people are farming one field. There's much less erosion when you don't have the whole thing in one crop.
mymy1926 Even in a drought year cultivating can help. It seals up the cracks in the ground which helps keep moisture in the ground. This only disturbs just enough dirt to shake things up.
after applying roundup behind my house it rained for 2 weeks and because its not roundup ready soybean and that they were already germinating the guy did just like you
I get the cultivating and reasons justifying it. What I wonder is why you haven't just bought a set of 6-row rolling cultivators that can be bought for scrap steel price? Would do a nicer job of cultivating but at a higher speed and without the trash clog I saw in this video.
Maybe, but with the tines on the cultivator it digs into the top crust and gets the air into the soil, also churning up the soil aggressively. We've ran those rotary hoes before and they don't compare to a cultivator. This is the first day we cultivated, later on when the corn is higher we are moving along much quicker, between 6-8 mph.
Great to see you doing things the "Old Fashioned Way". Just the way we used to do it and now our cultivator sits in the machine shed for years and years. Thanks for a great channel!
I sorry but what I think is old fashioned cultivating is when you take a mounted cultivator from the 30's or 40's.
A freshly cultivated field is a thing of beauty.
Good point about using cultivation as a way to avoid expensive and potentially harmful chemicals. We have a Brillion 6 row 30'' rowcrop cultivator that we use on our Allis Chalmers 190XT. It's actually been awhile since we had to spray herbicide on any of our rowcrops due to cultivating. My grandpa used to say that if you cultivated corn and the next day it rained, you could already tell that the corn had grown some :) nice video and introduction again
Do you constantly cultivate then?
it's amazing how the corn reacts after being cultivated also. I built up a tool bar very similar to your setup and mounted a 100gal tank to top dress 28% at same time and that gives a good shot in the arm to the corn as well. nice videos.
@HUSTONFARMSest I put all my n on with the cultivator in to trips Second trip with the ridging wings down because I furrow irrigation
I haven't grown corn in a few years, just hay. I used to cultivate almost every year. It seems to give the corn a big kick. It seems to take off and grow right after I did it. I used a 4020 with a six row. It was a good combination of equipment to use.
the good old days of cultivator blight...i kinda miss it,it was my favorite job when i was younger...
I cultivated corn and soybeans sometimes twice a year! Brings me back!
Glad to see your still cutivating. Back in the 60s and 70s I was using a 2 row, side attached JD cultivator mounted on a JD 60.
The JD 10 series was the new state of the art tracors. Like 1010 2010 3010 4010. 4 row cultivators were available.
+Lee Peterson Lee you and I had a similar experience. I was a kid in the 60's and 70's and used my dad's JD 620 with a mounted 4 row cultivator. Driving through the field cultivating corn with the tractor radio blasting, the Kansas City Royals baseball games, so loud our neighbor a half mile down the row could hear it. Ha!!
When we planted corn years ago we never sprayed it at all we just cultivated it and it worked good I still have the tractor and cultivators if I ever needed to use them
With the build up of resistance to herbicides we may see a lot of people going back to mechanical cultivation.
Thanks for showing this. Most farmers do not cultivate but use chemicals. However, the less chemicals you use, the better.
Jimmy Bryant cheaper?
That's not just a tractor that's the tractor of all tractors the John deere 4020.
That scene at 2:30 is just so peaceful
We do it the same way on our farm. It saves quite a bit of money compared to hitting it again with herbicides. Did you take the shields off the cultivator because I didn't see any? We use a John Deere 4440 on a 6 row. It takes awhile because we go a little slower and it takes out any point rows you have. It is also best to do it in a drought because the cracks will be sealed and it conserves moisture. That is what my grandpa always said.
We used to cultivate with a 3020 narrow front and mounted cultivators. We had a neighbor who had a 806 I think and a set of cultivators that mounted to the very front they had to be 12 or 8 rows that thing was massive.
I am a city girl and have no experience farming. I watch your vlog so that I can understand how the farming community works. It’s fascinating. I had taken it all for granted. Thank you for sharing a world I’ve never known. I was shocked at how precise you are with the tractor to not rip out the plants. Did you sacrifice a few rows when you were learning to drive? I’m sure you learned to drive a tractor at quite a young age. I hear that’s common.
He probably learned pretty quickly to not damage crops I'd guess
Got sick of visitin' the woodshed ..... >8^)
We used to do this, but it was called scuffling. After seeing this, I'm going back to the old way.
Sure cleans up the rows nicely
Ryan, just a thought you may appreciate if you continue to row crop cultivate. We put spikes on the planter in the wheel track rows, and when cultivating switched the steer tires to single rib tires. That spiked row held the steer axle right in place and made cultivating less stressful. It works really well. Pretty easy to nod off after a half dozen hours of cultivating, lol...
Can you describe what you mean about spikes? On s-tines, or just steel bar?
@@thomasfranklin4307 more of a steel bar, closer to a chisel plow than an s-tine. You're leaving something a single rib steer tire will follow in a future row crop cultivating pass.
Used to love cultivating cotton and grain sorghum and stuff back when we were row cropping... pretty relaxing day in the field, for the most part.
We ran two different types of cultivators... we'd usually do our first cultivation right after the stuff came up, when it was about 3-4 inches tall... for that one we used a Lilliston rolling cultivator, which had gangs with curved steel-tined wheels (about five of them stacked up in a gang like disk blades, about 2-3 inches apart) running on short disk axles with ball bearings on each end. They were adjustable for angle and pitch to match the 40 inch row beds. There was a single big sweep (about a 14 inch sweep) in the back on a solid shank (Those vibra-tine S-tine cultivators wouldn't hold up in our hard clay!) and we always mounted a pair of "ears" on the mounting bolt behind the sweep where it bolted onto the shank so that the cultivator threw more dirt up onto the beds.
Our other cultivator was a Deere RM. It used two gangs per row, one with 3 sweeps and the other with two, for five sweeps per row middle (on 40 inch rows). Generally ran about 6 inch sweeps on the front 4 shanks and a 12-14 inch sweep on the rearmost shank with the "ears" on it to throw the dirt out of the middle and up onto the beds. We cultivated with it the second (and sometimes third) times as needed.
Later! OL J R :)
Man, that was one peaceful video to watch. Thank you. What a seriously small margin of error you have with those wheels riding so close to those plants, eh? I had the honor of working on a friend's organic farm a number of years back. No equipment involved, just weeding and harvesting, mostly...some planting. Oddly, what stands out most was the use of copper to inhibit bacteria on the tomato plants and coyote urine to keep the deer away. That coyote urine was dark and NASTY smelling. Still, it was easily one of the more soul-satisfying experiences of my life. Such HARD work in such an AWESOME environment. Guess it's a trade off. Every human should be required to work on a farm for at least a year or two. Salud, dude!!
Cultivating works great for you guys. Just a very short window to be able to do it
What is the cultivator brand your using. Doing a good job.
That's Awesome. Great job
I remember when this was commmon practice.
THA'S THE BEST WAY TO GIVE THE PANT ALL SPACE AND POWER TO GROW BESIDE SPRAYING later on. healthy green colour.
Good video. I enjoyed the introduction; it's a great addition to your videos.
Thanks!
When we cultivate our corn we apply nitrogen, it seems to perk up the corn a bit.
I like this video~
Old fashioned way :).Cultivating is used here 2 or 3 times in soybean,corn,sunflower,sugar beet ,etc.Only large farmers use less cultivating ,but more chemical usage.
good looking soil
Love the S-tine cultivator. One of my favorite things to run. They get a little problematic when you put them in black dirt on a 260 horse tractor though.
This is why I kept my grandpa’s 3020 after he passed, for this reason
Great video! Where is your farm located. I'm sure you said before but I must have forgotten 😀
this is may favorate in the next year insha allah.
Good video
How wide are the corn and bean strips?Is the strip farming a common practice in your area?Where do you guys see the advantages compared to farm whole fields with one crop?
jaydee8850 They're supposed to be around 90 feet but they vary. Contours were popular but more people are farming one field. There's much less erosion when you don't have the whole thing in one crop.
Ryan, great video!!! I was wondering what does the leading colter on the cultivator do? The Corn looks good!
Those are to keep the cultivator going in a straight line, to resist the swaying motion of the swing arms, such as when you are on hilly terrain.
What tractor is on the cultivator
what's your row spacing?
that stirs up the arrowheads
man i would give anything to be a farmer
Steve mayo, you say that now
I would love to as well. But personally, i want to hobby farm on the side of my fulltime job. Someday I will.
Great vid man. You earned a sub.. Greatings from a farmer far far away from you :)
what kind of sweeps do you have on your cultivator
i just read an article in PRAIRIE FARMER, and row cultivating is coming back because of herbicide-resistant weeds
Well then, cheers to the future :)
What is cultivating
What I believe is old fashioned cultivating is using a mounted cultivator from the early/mid 1900's.
Loosing lot of moisture, you apparently get more rain than south Central Nebraska?
mymy1926 Even in a drought year cultivating can help. It seals up the cracks in the ground which helps keep moisture in the ground. This only disturbs just enough dirt to shake things up.
do you live in wisconsin if so were in wisconsin
I wish we would outlaw GMO crops like most other countries have. Do away with chemicals, and the insecticide the crops produce themselves.
I think chemical use will become worthless anyway so everyone will be most likely doing it this way and might as well use non gmo seed.
seems like it takes forever
Why spray at all doesnt this add humas to soil and reduce amount of fertilazer? I dont know
Your right that's what you should do.
Neat-- seeing that again. 57
Will someone please answer this question: how will a farmer cultivate rows of corn with a tractor once the corn is 5ft high or taller? Thank you
Sid Dasgupta we don’t idiot
after applying roundup behind my house it rained for 2 weeks and because its not roundup ready soybean and that they were already germinating the guy did just like you
The only way to farm. Cut cost on chemicals
Watermelon Baby Approved!!!
I'd take your farm any day of the year versus farms who strictly believe in chemicals.
Cultivating is like plow with a Cultivating machine
Eco-Friendly versus Chemicals.......
I LUV It !
I like it. I know im 2 years late lol
What is culvating for?
Tommy's Farms to kill the weeds.
As an organic farmer it's nice to see conversation farmers use our "technology".
JLand Welding what's a conversation farmer?
better hope OSHA didnt see 1:57
Bradley Korth But OSHA doesn't exist in Somalia
I get the cultivating and reasons justifying it. What I wonder is why you haven't just bought a set of 6-row rolling cultivators that can be bought for scrap steel price? Would do a nicer job of cultivating but at a higher speed and without the trash clog I saw in this video.
Maybe, but with the tines on the cultivator it digs into the top crust and gets the air into the soil, also churning up the soil aggressively. We've ran those rotary hoes before and they don't compare to a cultivator. This is the first day we cultivated, later on when the corn is higher we are moving along much quicker, between 6-8 mph.
NOTHING WRONG CULTIVATING..
Jesus
why strip farming
To prevent erosion
Clean your camera lens lol
All this no chemical stuff, how's your carbon footprint?
mymy1926 he was using the new John Deere electric tractor so not very much...
mymy1926 you think chemicals apply themselves?
Please don't ride on the tractor step it's DANGEROUS!
Good video