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The secret to controlling bull nettle is to spray when they are in bloom. I have had success using 2,4-D and a surfactant. An old retired county agent told me to use 2 tbsp. of 2,4-D, 1 tbsp of liquid Dawn soap in 1 gallon of water. With a hand pump up sprayer, spray individual plant to point...

Unfortunately, people use products in manner that the product was not intended. MSMA is labeled for use in turf grass. Read the entire label it clearly says "do not feed treated forage to livestock or graze treated areas"

Be careful with just asking for common bermuda. There are forage types and turf types.

If you can let those cows in that ryegrass for a couple of hours each day and then pull out it will stretch hay supplies. Even leaving them in a day every third day will help.

Poultry litter is a good source of some nutrients and increases organic matter. It generally provides N-P-K in a 2-2-1 ratio, so if you are trying to grow bermuda for hay you will need to add some additional potassium. The nitrogen is slow to release, so you may need to add 50 units of N to...

Since you have become a "city" person, draw on your years of experience in East Texas and how you grew hay. Fertilize and mow. Get you some 15-5-10 fertilizer at a garden center (even WalMart carries it here in East Texas). Wait until late April and apply 6 lbs per 1000 sq. ft of lawn...

If it is old sweet potato land, get a soil test as most likely you are going to be short in potassium. Chicken litter is good for slow release nitrogen and phosphorus but is lacking potassium. Also remember, if you cut and bale you are mining the nutrients out of the soil. Since we don't...

Your right, I was talking about broomsedge. Sorry.

Get your pH and phosphorus and potassium levels right and your good grasses will crowd it out. 2,4-D will not work on it because it is a grass.

gman, have you considered slinging some ryegrass seed in those fields that you just baled? You will not get any winter grazing from it planted this late, but it should be up and ready to go late winter. Wait and fertilize around Valentine Day.

Broomsedge bluestem is more the color of wheat. The seedheads (purple colored) do not look like broomsedge . Try looking up vaseygrass and see if it looks more like what you have.

Do not clip the blackberries. Next spring, when they are in bloom spray them with Surmount. If you clip them now, there will not be enough leaf surface to absorb the herbicide.

I will try to ask around and see if Oust or Outrider might work for you.

Bird Dog, you do have a problem. 3 awn is worthless. Is this in a hay field? If so, try a pint/acre soon after first cutting. It will ding it some but if you get rain and with good fertility should bounce back. What is your fertility level on that field , especially phosphorus. Oklahoma...

What are you trying to control? If it is ryegrass in your bermuda, then late January or first week of February. Use a pint to a quart per acre. Add 17 lbs of water soluable ammonium sulfate per 100 gallons of water. This really makes a difference.

At what rate was he using the glyphosate? It takes 5 qts/acre to kill established bermuda. A pt/acre will ding it but clean up crabgrass in a hay field.

It is also time to think about stockpiling bermuda or bahia. One problem - it takes rain in late August and September to grow grass to stockpile for late fall or early winter grazing.

Next time, get the existing forage off by grazing or mowing. No-till works but not when the grass is too tall. Too much competition for the new seedling.

If you are in So. Georgia, look at what UGA recommends for a legume to go with your bermuda. Also look at what Auburn is recommending in the way of legumes. They have developed several varieties.

504RP, nothing may ever happen, but IF it does, he stands to loose everything. I worry about the arsenic showing up in a tissue sample. Can you imagine the bad publicity if that ever happened? They can find a trace of antibiotic now because someone gave too much in one injection site or did...