Posted by Brendon-KS on May 25, 2016 at 22:22:12 from (206.225.246.20):
In Reply to: Field cultivator posted by Farmall43 on May 25, 2016 at 16:05:21:
From what I've observed the implements that are used all depend on where you're at. In areas where surface irrigation is used moldboard plowing and disking is still very common and in some areas, such as SE Colorado, field cultivators would be relatively uncommon. There they plow, disk a few times, then go over the ground with a leveler, often called a "float", to ensure that the water flows properly. I'm currently on a business trip in the Imperial Valley of California and haven't seen a field cultivator around yet but there are lots of disks, mostly heavy offset models. On the other hand, in Kansas wheat country a field cultivator is about the most-used implement that "tillage" farmers have. However, as was said by notjustair, field cultivators can become rakes when long, unbroken stalks like corn or milo residue is present. My father-in-law here in Kansas typically runs over stubble with a heavy disk then everything after that is with the field cultivator with 5-bar harrow attachment - it is the best implement around for killing weeds and smoothing the soil. When equipped with overlapping sweeps and run an inch or two deep there are virtually no weeds that can escape even a single pass.
Note that modern field cultivators have much more residue-handling abilities (noting the above limitations) than those made decades ago. Old-fashioned field cultivators with closely-spaced shanks were designed more for plowed ground where there was little residue on the surface. Newer ones are taller and have more rows of shanks to allow a wider spacing between adjacent sweeps while still maintaining complete, overlapping coverage.
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