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NW Washington | My dad always had to disk the bean and corn ground before plowing because he worried about to ridges on the rows made by the row crop cultivators. Then he got stalk chopper and still disk the ground in front of the plow. Our plows were equipped with Lantz Kutter Coulters which had a straight cutting blade and with a small disk blade beside it that acted as a jointer and threw a narrow strip of soil and trash in the furrow a head of the plow. They worked great and there would not be a stalk on the surface behind the plow. And like Bobby said, the corn and bean ground was plowed in the spring. Corn picking was often done on frozen ground, or sometimes in the snow.
In fact back in those days places like Purdue recommended "clean" plowing to control corn borers. And shoe or runner type openers on corn planters only worked well in bare soil. | |
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50+ Years of Working on Cornstalks
