blackberry briar control

[roanhorsegirl]

What chemicals do you all use on pasture to control blackberry briars? What timing? We have a few that are blooming, the rest are just putting on leaves.

 

[skyhightree1]

What chemicals do you all use on pasture to control blackberry briars? What timing? We have a few that are blooming, the rest are just putting on leaves.

I personally use a bushhog but heres what a search came up with

viewtopic.php?f=14&t=70648

 

[dun]

Surmount from leaves to full flower

 

[Limomike]

grazon will do the trick, but whatever u use.. I have been told the best time to spray them is after the berries fall. And it will take up to 3 years to rid them

 

[Craig Miller]

Best thing i found for blackberries is to eat them. Dont do much for controlling them though

 

[Nesikep]

We have rosehip (wild rose) bushes here... same prickly mess, just not as good in pies... I went over them with a blade and uprooted a lot of them, burnt it, and take a *good* weedeater (with a skillsaw blade or similar) to the rest... going through after with a subsoiler gets the roots up and they're done for after that.

 

[Alan]

Crossbow, a spray made by Dow.

 

[Farmerjon]

A couple mature goats, they will run to those briars and eat them like cotton candy!!!!!! Used to have a billy goat that loved pickle vine and when it would hang from the hi tensile fence he would grab the vine fast and shake his head as he pulled it!! Funny to watch, been years since we have had goats, but they ate vines, briars and all little saplings along the fence line.

 

[roanhorsegirl]

Thanks for the replies. These are just random small briars throughout a 30 acre pasture, we have brushhogged them for years, so the most they get is about a foot tall. The soil is acidic and we have limed it the past two years but the blackberries like the soil. Thanks for the recommendations, I know it may be a long process but they have to go!

 

[Rajela]

I always use Remedy Ultra and some 24D. Here is DOW's Recommendations..

https://www.dowagro.com/range/weed/blackberry.htm

 

[dun]

I always use Remedy Ultra and some 24D. Here is DOW's Recommendations..

https://www.dowagro.com/range/weed/blackberry.htm

I used to too. Then I discovered Surmount, one treatment and they're gone permanently.

 

[BC]

I always use Remedy Ultra and some 24D. Here is DOW's Recommendations..

https://www.dowagro.com/range/weed/blackberry.htm

I used to too. Then I discovered Surmount, one treatment and they're gone permanently.

The area county agents did a 3 year demonstration on blackberry control. Surmount got the best result and had the best long term kill success. Here is a link to results.

http://wood.agrilife.org/files/2011/03/ ... port_1.pdf

 

[Rajela]

Did a quick search for the price of Surmont and if the price I am seeing is the going rate for Surmont I will stick with the 24D & Remedy Ultra. Plus Surmont is regulated so it requires a application license.

 

[dun]

Did a quick search for the price of Surmont and if the price I am seeing is the going rate for Surmont I will stick with the 24D & Remedy Ultra.

In the long run it's about the same cost. Need a lot more treatments with Remedy and Grazon(2,4d), I think of it as being penny wise and pound foolish.

 

[Rajela]

I only run remedy where there is some signs of brush. Usually just around the fence rows. A couple gallons of remedy will do all I need and the rest is 24D. I put the pencil to it and I can't afford Surmont. Plus I don't have the application license.

 

[dun]

I only run remedy where there is some signs of brush. Usually just around the fence rows. A couple gallons of remedy will do all I need and the rest is 24D. I put the pencil to it and I can't afford Surmont. Plus I don't have the application license.

I only use it for balcberries, it would be a waste to use it for most anythign else. The only other woody brushy stuff we have a problem with is japanese honeysuckle, MF roses (MF doesn;t neesarrily mean multi flora) and buck brush aka coral berry, Remedy works good and permenant on all of that.

 

[Rajela]

The study shows 24D & Remedy Ultra got 98% control. Guess I will just be happy with that. If I killed them all I wouldn't have anything to do every year.

 

[BC]

I only run remedy where there is some signs of brush. Usually just around the fence rows. A couple gallons of remedy will do all I need and the rest is 24D. I put the pencil to it and I can't afford Surmont. Plus I don't have the application license.

2,4-D requires a license here. Surmount may cost more on the first look, but the blackberries stayed dead. The plots with 2,4-D plus Remedy had some regrowth the following year. You wind up spending about the same in herbicide costs to get rid of them not counting your time in application. As Dun said you may be penny wise and pound foolish.

 

[Deepsouth]

I'm 50 miles off the gulf in south Mississippi. The first week of April I fertilized two of my Bahia pastures with liquid nitrogen. I had remedy and grazon added to the tank. I am extremely pleased with the results. The per acre amount was 150 lbs of liquid nitrogen, 1 pint of remedy and 1 quart of grazon. I am told, but not sure,that this is the equivalent of surmount. I'll try and post some pictures of side by side fields of one treated and one not.

 

[dun]

I'm 50 miles off the gulf in south Mississippi. The first week of April I fertilized two of my Bahia pastures with liquid nitrogen. I had remedy and grazon added to the tank. I am extremely pleased with the results. The per acre amount was 150 lbs of liquid nitrogen, 1 pint of remedy and 1 quart of grazon. I am told, but not sure,that this is the equivalent of surmount. I'll try and post some pictures of side by side fields of one treated and one not.

Surmount doesn;t conatin anythign that is in Remedy. Grazon has Picloarm the same as surmount but less of it and none of the other thing that's in surmount