cultipacking corn

[bushhog bob]

Has anyone planted corn and then used a cultipacker. How would you do it or not do it.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Corn likes a nice soft, deep, loose seedbed. Soybeans, wheat and grass crops like a firmer seedbed. It's generally not a common practice to use a cultipacker on corn ground, especially AFTER planting. If at all, I'd use it BEFORE planting if the seedbed was too loose or a lot of clods. When packing for soybeans, that's usually done before planting. Cereal grains/grass, it's common to pack after seeding.

 

[Robert_in_NY]

Corn likes a nice soft, deep, loose seedbed. Soybeans, wheat and grass crops like a firmer seedbed. It's generally not a common practice to use a cultipacker on corn ground, especially AFTER planting. If at all, I'd use it BEFORE planting if the seedbed was too loose or a lot of clods. When packing for soybeans, that's usually done before planting. Cereal grains/grass, it's common to pack after seeding.

Some of the guys around here swear you need to pack before and after seeding oats. I have only ever packed before seeding to firm up the seedbed and keep the seed from being buried too deep but one of these days I will experiment with different seeding practices on a small strip. I know the idea of packing after seeding is to get good seed to soil contact so if my experiment shows a marked improvement I will rig up a hitch behind the drill and get a 12' cultipacker to follow me while seeding.

As for corn I have never heard of anyone packing the ground after seeding.

 

[TNhobbyfarmer]

Has anyone planted corn and then used a cultipacker. How would you do it or not do it.

Are you talking about just broadcasting corn on top of the ground and then cultipacking or drilling it then cultipacking? I've never heard of either practice. Not sure what your trying to accomplish. Either one sounds like a waste of time.

 

[wolc123]

I like to cultipack before planting corn with a row planter. It does a nice job leveling the field and breaking up the clumps in my mucky soil. I hitch the cultipacker to the back of a three-section drag and go over the field with that combo immediately before planting. I plant perpendicular (90 degrees) from the direction I dragged/cultipacked. This makes it real easy to see the rows and hold an even spacing (my planter lacks row markers). I dont know anyone who cultipacks corn after planting.

 

[bushhog bob]

Thanks, I was just curious. I have not planted corn since I was a kid. My dad would get a stick or broke hoe handle and punch a hole in the plowed and disked ground , then drop 2 corn seeds and 1 other seed ( I think it was a green bean seed or sometype pea seed in each hole.) After the corn started growing, he would pull the smaller plant up to thin it out. Did not have anytype seeder. Had a mule, a plow and an old spike harrow to bust up the ground. I never did know why he planted 2 corn seeds in the hole and then pull 1 up later to thin it. For some reason, I never did ask him why. These were the good old days.

 

[WarrenF]

Two seeds in one hole, trying to insure that he would get a plant from each hole. Germination of the seeds. Pulling one plant was to try to get the most production from the existing plant...PLUS.....both plants would not be "fighting" for the existing moisture.