MtnCows93
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Hey guys, im wanting to spray a pasture with 24d and was wondering if i can spray it while the cows are on it or if i need to give it a certain amount of time before i could graze it after i spray?
But read the label......callmefence":v3d84qzl said:No worries
Others may say different but I say read and follow the label and you should be good.MtnCows93":1hdj8apr said:no cotton around here, just corn and beans. what rate do you guys use with 24d? i think last year i mixed a quart and a half per acre with 10 gallons of water, my neighbor ruined his hay field by mixing it too heavy and killed his grass
MtnCows93":2fnnp0l1 said:i think im gonna wait a month before i spray buy this pasture was just cleared 2 years ago and never been sprayed and the weeds are bad
cattlemensparodise":1einmkmm said:Im new to spraying. pasture. I have a 500 gallon tank and it sprays 10 gallons of tank mix to the acre. I want to spray 24D and they are telling me I need to put 1 quart per acre. With the numbers I have presented, does this mean I need to put 50 quarts of 24D in my 500 gallons of water?
I spray mine all the time with cows,no problems.But I would think it is to hot as some have already posted.Better to do in early spring or fall when it is cooler.MtnCows93":11amzenz said:Hey guys, im wanting to spray a pasture with 24d and was wondering if i can spray it while the cows are on it or if i need to give it a certain amount of time before i could graze it after i spray?
Did you check the calibration to see if that is how much it is spraying or just going by what someone told you? If it is spraying 10 per acre then that would be right.My rig is set up to spray 17.5 gallons per acre,they say you have less drift with more gallons per acre.cattlemensparodise":19vdqbos said:Im new to spraying. pasture. I have a 500 gallon tank and it sprays 10 gallons of tank mix to the acre. I want to spray 24D and they are telling me I need to put 1 quart per acre. With the numbers I have presented, does this mean I need to put 50 quarts of 24D in my 500 gallons of water?
kd4au":2z0c0yrv said:Did you check the calibration to see if that is how much it is spraying or just going by what someone told you? If it is spraying 10 per acre then that would be right.My rig is set up to spray 17.5 gallons per acre,they say you have less drift with more gallons per acre.cattlemensparodise":2z0c0yrv said:Im new to spraying. pasture. I have a 500 gallon tank and it sprays 10 gallons of tank mix to the acre. I want to spray 24D and they are telling me I need to put 1 quart per acre. With the numbers I have presented, does this mean I need to put 50 quarts of 24D in my 500 gallons of water?
Yea I guess I could go to bigger nozzles and put out more gallons per acre but then I would have to fill the tank more often and I only have 200 gallon tank.So I think I will stay as is and spray early.Jogeephus":7ysb9okx said:kd4au":7ysb9okx said:Did you check the calibration to see if that is how much it is spraying or just going by what someone told you? If it is spraying 10 per acre then that would be right.My rig is set up to spray 17.5 gallons per acre,they say you have less drift with more gallons per acre.cattlemensparodise":7ysb9okx said:Im new to spraying. pasture. I have a 500 gallon tank and it sprays 10 gallons of tank mix to the acre. I want to spray 24D and they are telling me I need to put 1 quart per acre. With the numbers I have presented, does this mean I need to put 50 quarts of 24D in my 500 gallons of water?
Good point. I spray a lot of "volatile" herbicides near cotton without any problems with drift but I use water concentrations from 20 - 40 gal/acre depending on how much leaf area is being treated. I was taught to try and apply enough solution to get it to the verge of runoff to insure maximum coverage and kill. The kill is more important to me than efficiency. Like you say, its the low volume concentrations which are more apt to bite you when it comes to drift. You can watch some people spray and you can see they are applying an aerosol by the cloud behind their sprayer and this is asking for trouble.
kd4au":3fl38qhz said:Yea I guess I could go to bigger nozzles and put out more gallons per acre but then I would have to fill the tank more often and I only have 200 gallon tank.So I think I will stay as is and spray early.Jogeephus":3fl38qhz said:kd4au":3fl38qhz said:Did you check the calibration to see if that is how much it is spraying or just going by what someone told you? If it is spraying 10 per acre then that would be right.My rig is set up to spray 17.5 gallons per acre,they say you have less drift with more gallons per acre.
Good point. I spray a lot of "volatile" herbicides near cotton without any problems with drift but I use water concentrations from 20 - 40 gal/acre depending on how much leaf area is being treated. I was taught to try and apply enough solution to get it to the verge of runoff to insure maximum coverage and kill. The kill is more important to me than efficiency. Like you say, its the low volume concentrations which are more apt to bite you when it comes to drift. You can watch some people spray and you can see they are applying an aerosol by the cloud behind their sprayer and this is asking for trouble.