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<blockquote data-quote="Weaver" data-source="post: 580482" data-attributes="member: 410"><p>ga. prime, It is generally accepted around here that if you are using roundup to kill the existing vegatation so you can plant, you do that preplant. If you plant before spraying, and your coulters cut a weed off at ground level, then when you spray, you have a much smaller target for that roundup to hit. Also, roundup works best if the weeds ar healthy and actively growing. If you run the drill across the field chopping them up,the weeds will be stressed and may not have the desired result. Ga. prime, not to say that you method wont work, just throwing the southern illinois ideas out there. Take them for what they are worth. When we want to get in a field and don't want to wait on the roundup to work we use gramoxone after planting with good results. We used it on a field we were putting into sorghum-sudan hybrid and it cost less than $11/acre which i thought was reasonable. Also just had the fertilizer applied with the gramoxone which isn't possible using roundup</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Weaver, post: 580482, member: 410"] ga. prime, It is generally accepted around here that if you are using roundup to kill the existing vegatation so you can plant, you do that preplant. If you plant before spraying, and your coulters cut a weed off at ground level, then when you spray, you have a much smaller target for that roundup to hit. Also, roundup works best if the weeds ar healthy and actively growing. If you run the drill across the field chopping them up,the weeds will be stressed and may not have the desired result. Ga. prime, not to say that you method wont work, just throwing the southern illinois ideas out there. Take them for what they are worth. When we want to get in a field and don't want to wait on the roundup to work we use gramoxone after planting with good results. We used it on a field we were putting into sorghum-sudan hybrid and it cost less than $11/acre which i thought was reasonable. Also just had the fertilizer applied with the gramoxone which isn't possible using roundup [/QUOTE]
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