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I am buying a new cultipacker and have a question.When you disc the ground up good and spread your seed,do you need to disc again and then cultipack or will just cultipacking do the trick?Another,can cultipacking twice make the seedbed too firm? I just have no experience with this.
 
After disking/tilling I'll spread the larger seeds such as wheat, oats then roll them in then spread the small seeds and culipack them
 
Disc, plant large seeds, pack, sow small seeds, pack.
If it's going to rain in a day or two after planting large seed do not worry with packing the 2nd time just sow rain will do the rest.
With that being said if your ground is rock hard after the 1st packing it's very possible that your seeds will float if given a downpour. Regardless of forecast I pack twice. Hope this helps.
 
There's no set way that you have to do it. That's where a lot of confusion comes in with planting. You can get good results using several different approaches to planting. Generally speaking you want to cultipack small seeds(clover) and use a disk with no cultipacker to cover large seeds(corn). However as Spoon said, if your dirt is really worked up fine and real soft, a cultipacker will press large seeds deep enough that you don't need anything other than the cultipacker to cover the seeds. If you were going to plant clover on this same soft dirt, you'd definitely want to run a cultipacker over it before broadcasting the seeds so that when you cultipack the 2nd time, you don't bury the tiny seeds too deep.

Most of the time I don't even use my cultipacker when planting corn, beans, peas, etc. I just broadcast then run the disk over the field with little to no angle set and a piece of railroad rail dragging behind.
 
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I may do too much but I'm anal about it. We bushog. Spray wIt two weeks. Spread fertilize and cut the ground to our liking. Then we wait for rain. Then we sow as soon as possible and drag then cultipack again. If we are doing clover or small seeds we just sow them on top of what we had done previously.
 

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