I need help with my pasture!

[savin yours]

NUTGRASS! It’s taking over everything and I don’t know how to control it. The more I read about it, the more depressed I get. I read that the best way to deal with it, is to move. Not really instilling much confidence in me. The majority of people say to mow it high, and give the grass a chance to choke it out. Do I move my cows somewhere? I need serious help


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[DRT]

The herbicides for it are pretty expensive to use on a large scale. Probably tilling or plowing and letting the root be exposed would work cheaper than herbicides.

Gary

[Radar]

NUTGRASS! It’s taking over everything and I don’t know how to control it. The more I read about it, the more depressed I get. I read that the best way to deal with it, is to move. Not really instilling much confidence in me. The majority of people say to mow it high, and give the grass a chance to choke it out. Do I move my cows somewhere? I need serious help


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Basagran herbicide but will take several applications. Generic is called Broadloom. Dont plow or disc, that will make it spread. It should have a seed head on it now and would be an ideal time to spray, my understanding is the herbicide is soaked up in the leaves and will work its way down to the nuts in the root system under the ground.

When the hogs find it they will destroy your pasture completely, I know that for fact. They will root up the plants and eat the tubers or nuts off the roots.

I can spray it and kill one field and then it pops up in another. That stuff is hog attractant

[Drycreek3189]

I’ve only had to deal with a little of it, and spot sprayed it out of existence. That was in a clover plot. I had some more in a spot that wasn’t planted and killed it with gly. As Jeff said, Basagran or Sedgehammer is expensive to use.

[Greenheadless]

Hogs will get after it.

[savin yours]

Hogs will get after it.

I’m about to the point of trapping some and turning them loose on my place.


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[Stan R]

I used Outrider Got rid of it for about 3 years.

[RMW]

Permit works great, cost about 16.00 an acre

[savin yours]

Permit works great, cost about 16.00 an acre

Thanks, I may try this.


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[Dusty Britches]

Plateau will also work on nutsedge, but it will stunt your bermuda grass. (See http://forages.tamu.edu/PDF/B-5038.pdf and http://www.cdms.net/ldat/ld2LP015.pdf page 13)

I use Plateau after I cut and baled hay and I waited for the Bermuda grass to re-green up. The Plateau wiped out crabgrass, Johnson grass, sand burs and stunted the nightshades. I really needed about 1/2" rain after I sprayed but I only got 1/4". So my bermuda grass did not return to green and growing as fast as spots that I missed. Since we got so much rain and our hay production was amazing on our first cutting, I really wasn't worried about the stunted Bermuda grass.

Depending on how high your Bermuda grass is, you will want to shred/ bale and wait about 2 weeks before application.

Good luck!

[CabezaBlanca]

Outrider or GrazonNext HL works great. There are no grazing restrictions on either of those. I had it bad on my place also. I have very little now. Plowing helps also.

[savin yours]

Plateau will also work on nutsedge, but it will stunt your bermuda grass. (See http://forages.tamu.edu/PDF/B-5038.pdf and http://www.cdms.net/ldat/ld2LP015.pdf page 13)

I use Plateau after I cut and baled hay and I waited for the Bermuda grass to re-green up. The Plateau wiped out crabgrass, Johnson grass, sand burs and stunted the nightshades. I really needed about 1/2" rain after I sprayed but I only got 1/4". So my bermuda grass did not return to green and growing as fast as spots that I missed. Since we got so much rain and our hay production was amazing on our first cutting, I really wasn't worried about the stunted Bermuda grass.

Depending on how high your Bermuda grass is, you will want to shred/ bale and wait about 2 weeks before application.

Good luck!

Thanks. I have a small cow/calf operation, grazing on unimproved pastures, no hay fields.


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[Dusty Britches]

Me too.

Except I do cut my annual hay once a year then graze it the rest of the year. I was very happy with the Plateau.