No - there is a cultipacker on the back of the Woods seeder. If I am really ambitious and dont have anything else to do - when I plant in the fall, I go back in and bush hog the weeds just to make it look pretty. I dont even fertilize anymore, unless I want to produce a grain crop - like wheat heads for my dove plot, or millet for doves and ducks. No fertilizer in the fall plots, though. I might bushhog my clover plots at least once or twice in the summer, to keep the weeds down. When I plant wheat and clover in the fall, it is one pass with the woods seeder and I put it up. I can do 35 acres in two days, and I am done. I do plant quite a bit in the spring for doves and ducks - but again, once and done - but I fertilize before planting, because I am after seed heads.