Growing up in southern Missouri in the sixties we only had 2 row planters and cultivators but I remember the satisfaction of looking back and seeing the fresh soil behind me while cultivating corn or milo. That and the first round of a hay field with a 7 ft. mower are great memories.
My Dad used a Farmall SC and 2 row cultivator up until 1959 then switch to herbicides. My Dad’s biggest complaint was good cultivating days were also good hay making days. Great video, no room for error or a lot of corn will be lost.
Oh my gosh, I have great memories of cultivating and using John Deere 4010 with a six-row. I did enjoy it. Twenty-four rows at a time. That is incredible.
Brings back memories of my late grandfather who used row crop cultivation back in the 1970’s. Already a subscriber to 6th gen as I was watching one of your videos a few months back it was suggested as another video to me. I watched him put that cultivar together with his dad.
As a small kid back in early 70s, I remember riding/sitting on the 2 row cultivator behind a Ford 8N while my Mom would cultivate early in the morning while my Dad was milking and before it was time to do hay that day. Later on as a teenager, I used a 6 row cultivator behind our MF 1105. To this day, we still have a nice 12 row 30" cultivator that we will use when we find a patch of corn with a severe weed problem that the chemicals just does not handle well.
This is cool. I just broke out the 12 row 845 behind a Ford 8830 for the first time in over 20 years. Fun to see the old technology brought into the modern era.
Wow! That thing is huge! I spent many hours as a teenager in the mid 90s driving a CaseIH 7120 pulling a 12 row Hiniker cultivating red kidneys and sugar beats. Can't imagine something twice as wide. Incredible. As weeds become more resistant to herbicides, we may see this kind of thing more often.
I cultivated many an acre of.soybeans with a 6 row 30" cultivator with danish tines back in the 70's and 80's here in Georgia. Wish we had the electric impact wrenches we have now back then to change sweeps.
I enjoyed watching cultivating. They are pretty good at it especially going as fast as they are without auto steer! This farm is just 30 miles north of where I live in Iowa. Thanks for the great video.
Some of my worse summer time memories is spending endless hours on the JD 4020 with an 8 row rear mounted cultivator. I still cultivate today, but it's with a modified 2 row for my sweet corn...it works!! BTW, no hiding if you get a little off the row with this thing!!
My boss use to cultivate corn and beans back in the 70s and 80s. Can remember crusty bean ground A 3/4 maybe 1300 rpm 4320 J D Slow going, little beans . We did 8 rows at a pass cover a lot of ground. Bosses boy ran 4320 with 8 rows also. Try to do corn once and beans twice. Long easy boring days. Don't hardly see any cultivating in southern Michigan anymore.
This is the second 24 row cultivator I have seen. Back in the late 90s a local farmer here had a local machine shop build him a 24 row cultivator. It was massive compared to equipment that I was running.
Done a lot of row crop cultivating myself in sugar cane, the most we did there was 5 rows at a time. That’s one big cultivator, never seen anything like that before, you’d need accurate driving there to do a good job. Regards from Down Under.
@@bigtractorpower Various tractors, the sugar industry uses smaller horse power tractors than large scale broad acre farming. Mostly I used a John Deere 3130, approx 100 hp tractor. I departed the sugar industry over 25 years ago, I now enjoy the easier life of a grazier.
I never even knew there were row crop cultivators to fight weeds and grass. Thank you for the video. I'd be interested the difference between passes and the soil condition.
ih nice tractor corn getting big where is this field, did you spread fertlizer on it first how many arca is this field. all cow corn or husk it in the fall thanks.
It’s interesting looking back at Kate 1990’s tractor sales brochures and row crop cultivating is still prominently featured in the pictures. By 2002 those pictures all but disappeared in tractor brochures.
Ran a 4 row front cultivator on a WD without power steering. Not only is it difficult to keep concentration on the rows on sidehills, but the weight of the cultivator made steering so difficult that I had to hang off the steering wheel to keep it on track.
Don't see many videos that show row cultivating, wasn't sure there were many farmers still doing it. It always seem that they rely on spraying and not row cultivating. We did that all the time when we were farming. Thanks
my dad had a ih 56 front mount cultivator and he had the single half sweeps set very close turn the wheel cultivator blight lol. i cultivate my beans and corn two times,
So the corn that is run over during the turnaround (or wherever else) is considered collateral damage, and the increased yield from cultivating offsets that loss? I know that loss is probably extremely small considering the size of the fields. Still very interesting. So overall what's more beneficial? Spraying or cultivating?
Field is organic, no spraying allowed. This is probably the 6th or 7th pass on this field since planting for weed control so yes the end rows get beat up pretty bad. Part of the end rows are not even harvestable for organic because a buffer is needed between the organic and neighboring fields, so the money crop is the main field, not the ends.
@@tbone0785 if you have a source of fertilizer that is okay to use on organic and clean fields it can yield with regular corn if everything goes right. Weeds can cut production by 80-90% if really bad. That is why making all the passes to keep it as weed free as possible is necessary and yes the end rows can take a beating in the process.
How it can hold the track between the rows? The tractor destoys a lot of corn plants with the belts when he turns. should be a wheel tractor for driving around in the corn field.
Cultivator units work best when they are not in a wheel track. In this particular organic field the only weeds are the rows are on either side of where the tracks went. A single wheel tractor will not handle the weight or have the traction to handle this piece of equipment. A dualed machine would double the area that the cultivator does not do a great job of weed control. In organic there are trade offs between weed control and damaging some corn. In the future I think a better system of traffic control, or always turning in the exact same tracks is warranted
@@christianhollauer881 to be certified organic needs to be raised with no synthetic fertilizer, herbicide or pesticide. Even manure sources need to be approved for use in the certification process. Most years a decent premium for selling organic bushels, but a lot of work involved.
@@bigtractorpower Thanks. I'm not too familiar with John Deere tractors, couldn't afford them. IH and CaseIH on our ranch just north of Regina, SK. Drought forced us into early retirement so I have lots of time for TH-cam!
Are you trying to watch on an iPhone by chance? This happened on yesterday’s wheat harvest video. For the first 30 minutes iPhones could not play the video but android phones and computers could. Try in about 30 minutes to an hour and the video should play. It is a TH-cam glitch.
Why doesn’t he use gps? We farm organic 24 row and use RTK for everything…. Also looks up fehrs farming organic on TH-cam. They e been doing organic since early 2000s, great farmers and are very big!
Rotary hoes as in like yetter rotary hoes? Fehrs use a spake bar with yetter wheels on it im pretty sure. We’re neighbors so we go back and forth a lot with ideas trying. I’ve heard of him and heard him talk once, very smart!
I'm surprised they don't have a side shift hitch. Either camera or wand. They're doing a great job without it but most organic guys rave about them up here at what a load they take off mentally and what a good job they do. Carson is right though I planted with GPS first time this year and I wouldn't trust the repeatability for my scuffling work.
Spent my summers cultivating bottom land corn with a mule on papaws farm. This woke generation needs to spend a summer doing that. They might learn a little about respect and how to be humble.
DAMN! Just look at all the damage to the end rows! I just don't get it. We farmed a couple thousand acres when I was Growing up and the best thing we ever did was get away from cultivating 40 years ago. $6 Fuel, loss of moisture, damage to the field, No way in hell that I'd ever go back to cultivating. At 9:26 just look at the damage. Hell, they just might as well not even plant the end rows. I promise you that our landlords would run us off if we did things this way!
I know it’s still a small percentage of the crop, but those tracks sure are smooshing a lot in the end rows, more than a single-tired tractor would, from what it looks like.
The turns really are not all that bad. The main issue is keeping the center of the field clean. A wheeled tractor would need duals to carry the weight of the 60ft tool bar. The duals would trample more.
I love it when people have equipment custom-made for their operations it’s pretty good operator to drive the tractor without auto steer
Growing up in southern Missouri in the sixties we only had 2 row planters and cultivators but I remember the satisfaction of looking back and seeing the fresh soil behind me while cultivating corn or milo. That and the first round of a hay field with a 7 ft. mower are great memories.
My Dad used a Farmall SC and 2 row cultivator up until 1959 then switch to herbicides. My Dad’s biggest complaint was good cultivating days were also good hay making days. Great video, no room for error or a lot of corn will be lost.
Oh my gosh, I have great memories of cultivating and using John Deere 4010 with a six-row. I did enjoy it. Twenty-four rows at a time. That is incredible.
Very cool to cultivate with a 4010. What brand of cultivator did you run.
@@bigtractorpower One was a John Deere shovel, and the other was a rolling cultivator; I don't remember the brand name.
@@thomasvogelgesang667 We ran Lilleston rolling cultivators. I loved them!
@@mikek1889 That was the name. Thanks for the information.
I am just recalling the many “Ops” moments cultivating corn and beans when I was a kid. I was in a 6 row cultivar, you wouldn’t want me in a 24 row!
Brings back memories of my late grandfather who used row crop cultivation back in the 1970’s. Already a subscriber to 6th gen as I was watching one of your videos a few months back it was suggested as another video to me. I watched him put that cultivar together with his dad.
As a small kid back in early 70s, I remember riding/sitting on the 2 row cultivator behind a Ford 8N while my Mom would cultivate early in the morning while my Dad was milking and before it was time to do hay that day. Later on as a teenager, I used a 6 row cultivator behind our MF 1105. To this day, we still have a nice 12 row 30" cultivator that we will use when we find a patch of corn with a severe weed problem that the chemicals just does not handle well.
This is cool. I just broke out the 12 row 845 behind a Ford 8830 for the first time in over 20 years. Fun to see the old technology brought into the modern era.
Wow! That thing is huge! I spent many hours as a teenager in the mid 90s driving a CaseIH 7120 pulling a 12 row Hiniker cultivating red kidneys and sugar beats. Can't imagine something twice as wide. Incredible. As weeds become more resistant to herbicides, we may see this kind of thing more often.
I cultivated many an acre of.soybeans with a 6 row 30" cultivator with danish tines back in the 70's and 80's here in Georgia. Wish we had the electric impact wrenches we have now back then to change sweeps.
👍👍. What tractor did you cultivate with?
@@bigtractorpower 1976 JD 4030. Bought it brand new when I was 15. Still have it. Looks and runs great.
i love this cultivator, it is doing pretty good job, thanks janson for the video
I watched one of his videos the other day where he and his dad were working on that cultivator and now here it is on here to.Pretty cool.
Operator has sturdy hand, amazing skill and great shots with drone, love it
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You do an awesome job with that drone Jason... Mine ended up making a emergency landing on the shop roof...
Hahaha
This drone work was done by Carson for the video. He sure did a nice job.
@@bigtractorpower hey Jason, have you noticed the scammers are using your channel now? It drives me crazy.. there on every channel.
@@kygreenskeeper8326 imagine spending time online to do that chit
@@2511jeremy that's the world we live in my friend.
Wow ,good to see some weeding still being done like this instead of just spraying everything.
cool to see carson feature on a big channel like this!
I remember watching my grandfather use two row cultivator on corn row crop with his JD model A in the fifty and sixties
Very cool. The A was a great Deere row crop tractor.
Cool to see a big cultivator at work👍😁
I ran a IH966 Hydro with a 4 row IH cultivator back in the early 80’s this thing is a monster compared to that! So cool! Thanks for the video!
I enjoyed watching cultivating. They are pretty good at it especially going as fast as they are without auto steer! This farm is just 30 miles north of where I live in Iowa. Thanks for the great video.
Very cool. Thank you for watching.
I just wanted to double check that this was actually you and not someone scamming me.
So cool. I’ve watched their channel, they are great people.
Congratulations again for your videos, are absolutely perfect. 👍
Some of my worse summer time memories is spending endless hours on the JD 4020 with an 8 row rear mounted cultivator. I still cultivate today, but it's with a modified 2 row for my sweet corn...it works!! BTW, no hiding if you get a little off the row with this thing!!
Wonderful videos thank you bigtractorpower
This is an amazing sight !!
I knew that tractor and cultivator set up looked and sounded familiar. Great video!
My boss use to cultivate corn and beans back in the 70s and 80s.
Can remember crusty bean ground
A 3/4 maybe 1300 rpm 4320 J D
Slow going, little beans .
We did 8 rows at a pass cover a lot of ground. Bosses boy ran 4320 with
8 rows also. Try to do corn once and beans twice. Long easy boring days.
Don't hardly see any cultivating in
southern Michigan anymore.
Hello! Awesome implement doing a fine work.
Great drone work Jason
Thank you for watching. The drone work was done by Carson the 6th Gen Farmer who talks about the tractor from the cab.
@@bigtractorpower thanx for upload and the referral of their channel ,I enjoy learning off this type of content …kind regards from NewZealand
My dad cultivated corn with a one row behind a mule. That was in the Tennessee hill country and yes I am old.
Wow that was farming. Thank you for sharing this history. Farming has come along way in the past century.
This is the second 24 row cultivator I have seen. Back in the late 90s a local farmer here had a local machine shop build him a 24 row cultivator. It was massive compared to equipment that I was running.
That is neat. What type of tractor did the farmer use to operate his 24 row?
@@bigtractorpower I don't remember what tractor he used. He runs John Deere tractors.
Wow... I grew up using a 130 Farmall with a belly cultivator... I could have finished our tobacco in 2 hrs with this equipment... Lol .. thx Jason!
The 130 was sure a popular cultivating tractor in Kentucky.
@@bigtractorpower sure was Jason... We had 2... Also an H and M Farmall...
So much bigger than I saw in the 80s …very cool machine!
I grew up watching 6 and 12 row cultivators. 24 rows was unimaginable back then.
Great vídeo Jason.
Done a lot of row crop cultivating myself in sugar cane, the most we did there was 5 rows at a time. That’s one big cultivator, never seen anything like that before, you’d need accurate driving there to do a good job. Regards from Down Under.
Neat on the sugar cane. What type is tractor did you use to cultivate?
@@bigtractorpower Various tractors, the sugar industry uses smaller horse power tractors than large scale broad acre farming. Mostly I used a John Deere 3130, approx 100 hp tractor. I departed the sugar industry over 25 years ago, I now enjoy the easier life of a grazier.
I used to spend many hours cultivating with an H Farmall and two row cultivators and then we moved up to a 560 and 4 row quick hitch cultivators.
Always good to hear about IH. I grew up watching a pair of 1066’s cultivating. One on a 6 row and one on a 12 row.
I never even knew there were row crop cultivators to fight weeds and grass. Thank you for the video. I'd be interested the difference between passes and the soil condition.
long way from our John Deere 60 doing 4 rows. Great vid.
4 rows on a 60 was big time in its day. 👍👍
ih nice tractor corn getting big where is this field, did you spread fertlizer on it first how many arca is this field. all cow corn or husk it in the fall thanks.
Nice video cool cultivator did Carson indicate the number of passes the do during the Cory's growing season 👍
We love our track!
Would model track tractor do you run?
@@bigtractorpower 9620t
This video really got me thinking I believe it was in 1996 I ran a cultivator last
It’s interesting looking back at Kate 1990’s tractor sales brochures and row crop cultivating is still prominently featured in the pictures. By 2002 those pictures all but disappeared in tractor brochures.
They are moving along pretty fast.
The 8RT can really get up and move.
Truly a lost art. I miss it..
The old saying "Time is Money" you can see it at work here. 👍
Wow that's some cultivating
60ft per pass is getting the acres covered.
Looks to be traveling at 6-7 mph too.
That's cool.
Thank you for watching.
I remember Cultivating with a Model A John Deere and a 4 row Front mount Sure Made the Corn Grow
Very cool. Moving the soil and airing out in the summer sure seems to boost the corn.
WOW !!! Great camera work!!!👍
That is Carson’s good work 👍👍
Thank you Chris!
You would have to be spot on with your driving between the rows or else you could easily slice up the corn !!
Viewed 7-7-22 from Illinois very good drone-video production work. Could not have gotten the video w/o the drone.
Thank you for watching. Carson filmed this with his drone. It gives some great views.
That's big,all we had was a 8 rowand what about the cost between tracks and tires?😮
Ran a 4 row front cultivator on a WD without power steering. Not only is it difficult to keep concentration on the rows on sidehills, but the weight of the cultivator made steering so difficult that I had to hang off the steering wheel to keep it on track.
So amazing
Thank you for watching.
Don't see many videos that show row cultivating, wasn't sure there were many farmers still doing it. It always seem that they rely on spraying and not row cultivating. We did that all the time when we were farming. Thanks
my dad had a ih 56 front mount cultivator and he had the single half sweeps set very close turn the wheel cultivator blight lol. i cultivate my beans and corn two times,
IVT was stolen from Oliver... Deere was lucky Oliver went out of business due to White's mismanagement of Oliver... Great videos. Thank you!!!
What percentage of the headlands do you lose turning on it
I am not sure. The loss on the turns is not bad as what would be lost to weeds in the long rows.
The turn loss on end rows is probably around 30-40% throughout all the passes during a year
Does 6th Gen farmer do organic or they are just saving some cos?
This is organic corn.
I wonder what it’s like cultivating and not be glued to the right arm rest watching the pointer all day long.😳 GPS. Gamechanger
So the corn that is run over during the turnaround (or wherever else) is considered collateral damage, and the increased yield from cultivating offsets that loss? I know that loss is probably extremely small considering the size of the fields. Still very interesting.
So overall what's more beneficial? Spraying or cultivating?
Field is organic, no spraying allowed. This is probably the 6th or 7th pass on this field since planting for weed control so yes the end rows get beat up pretty bad. Part of the end rows are not even harvestable for organic because a buffer is needed between the organic and neighboring fields, so the money crop is the main field, not the ends.
@@ryankahler7760 ahh ok gotcha. How does the yield of the organic fields compare to non-organic?
@@tbone0785 if you have a source of fertilizer that is okay to use on organic and clean fields it can yield with regular corn if everything goes right. Weeds can cut production by 80-90% if really bad. That is why making all the passes to keep it as weed free as possible is necessary and yes the end rows can take a beating in the process.
How it can hold the track between the rows? The tractor destoys a lot of corn plants with the belts when he turns. should be a wheel tractor for driving around in the corn field.
Cultivator units work best when they are not in a wheel track. In this particular organic field the only weeds are the rows are on either side of where the tracks went. A single wheel tractor will not handle the weight or have the traction to handle this piece of equipment. A dualed machine would double the area that the cultivator does not do a great job of weed control. In organic there are trade offs between weed control and damaging some corn. In the future I think a better system of traffic control, or always turning in the exact same tracks is warranted
@@ryankahler7760 Thank you for the comprehensive explanations. Are you also a farmer? Does "Organic" mean without chemicals and fertilizer?
@@christianhollauer881 to be certified organic needs to be raised with no synthetic fertilizer, herbicide or pesticide. Even manure sources need to be approved for use in the certification process. Most years a decent premium for selling organic bushels, but a lot of work involved.
Very cool video. A very nice setup. Do they apply anhydrous ammonia on their corn?? GO BTP 💪.
We do apply anhydrous ammonia on our corn but not on this field. This is an organic field so no fertilizers other than manure
@@6thGenFarmer OK. Thanks for replying.
You should do larson farms next!
They have a nice operation.
Ya, on a day Dougo gets stuck. 😂
Is this conventional? I can see organic needing it, but that’s a clean field!
That's a lot of cultivator.
Yes indeed!
It sure is but it cover the acres in a hurry.
That JD should be able to handle a 36 row row crop cultivator, if there is such a wide span model.
"R" stands for Premium? Were the "P"s all taken?
There are E and M John Deere tractors. R indicates top end.
@@bigtractorpower Thanks. I'm not too familiar with John Deere tractors, couldn't afford them. IH and CaseIH on our ranch just north of Regina, SK. Drought forced us into early retirement so I have lots of time for TH-cam!
We used a IH 6 row with rolling baskets on a 1950t Oliver
Awesome cultivating team.
It’s a long way from my father’s Farmall H two row mounted cultivator running in second gear
The H is one of the all time greats. 😁👍
I’d love to see this video, but for some reason it won’t play here in Aus.
Are you trying to watch on an iPhone by chance? This happened on yesterday’s wheat harvest video. For the first 30 minutes iPhones could not play the video but android phones and computers could. Try in about 30 minutes to an hour and the video should play. It is a TH-cam glitch.
Hot dusty days doing soybean with a JohnDeere B with a two and corn with a four row on a 45hp MM.
I'm all for row crop cultivation, but it does wreak havoc on the headlands unfortunately.
Thank god for GPS!
No GPS on this one. Carson talks about steering the tractor with a camera in the cab ride along part of the video.
Why doesn’t he use gps? We farm organic 24 row and use RTK for everything…. Also looks up fehrs farming organic on TH-cam. They e been doing organic since early 2000s, great farmers and are very big!
Oh wow. My mistake. I must have missed that.
Rotary hoes as in like yetter rotary hoes? Fehrs use a spake bar with yetter wheels on it im pretty sure. We’re neighbors so we go back and forth a lot with ideas trying. I’ve heard of him and heard him talk once, very smart!
cheaper than spraying ?
Judging off the headlands, this looks like their second pass?
I would say so.
In reality it is the 6th pass. Organic corn takes a lot of dragging, rotary hoeing and cultivating
Is this an organic farm?
Yes
I’d hate to get off the row with a swath like that‼️
I'm surprised they don't have a side shift hitch. Either camera or wand. They're doing a great job without it but most organic guys rave about them up here at what a load they take off mentally and what a good job they do. Carson is right though I planted with GPS first time this year and I wouldn't trust the repeatability for my scuffling work.
I use a 4 row mounted cultivator on my John Deere 60
Very nice. That would have a great sound out in the field 👍👍
Didn't realize big farms Cultivated anymore thought they all sprayed for weeds..
Several do. It is a sure way to eliminate all weeds.
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Thank you for watching.
Spent my summers cultivating bottom land corn with a mule on papaws farm. This woke generation needs to spend a summer doing that. They might learn a little about respect and how to be humble.
DAMN! Just look at all the damage to the end rows! I just don't get it. We farmed a couple thousand acres when I was Growing up and the best thing we ever did was get away from cultivating 40 years ago. $6 Fuel, loss of moisture, damage to the field, No way in hell that I'd ever go back to cultivating. At 9:26 just look at the damage. Hell, they just might as well not even plant the end rows. I promise you that our landlords would run us off if we did things this way!
If your landlords were getting rent from organic they may be happier than you think.
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That’s covering a lot ground quick..
It sure is. Impressive way to remove weeds
I know it’s still a small percentage of the crop, but those tracks sure are smooshing a lot in the end rows, more than a single-tired tractor would, from what it looks like.
Single tire tractor would not handle the weight or have the traction necessary to handle a 60’ of cultivator
The turns really are not all that bad. The main issue is keeping the center of the field clean. A wheeled tractor would need duals to carry the weight of the 60ft tool bar. The duals would trample more.
@@bigtractorpower Can you block these scammy bastards that reply to every comment about “message me to win” or whatever? I keep reporting them.