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spinandslide

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What can I spray on my coastal fields to wipe off the planet all the grasshoppers that have come around?

I lucked out with my first cut and got it baled before they ate much of it..Id never had hoppers this bad before..I want them UTTERLY DEAD..

Thoughts?

Sarah
 
At this time of year you have 3 choices in Texas.

Sevin - use 0.5 to 1.5 qts/acre There is a 14 grazing or haying restriction

Malathion - use 2 pts/acre. No grazing or haying restrictions. If aerial application, use Malathion ULV at 8 to 10 oz/acre.

Mustang Max - 3 to 4 ozs/acre. No grazing restriction.

Hope this helps.
 
BC":1fmhuebq said:
At this time of year you have 3 choices in Texas.

Sevin - use 0.5 to 1.5 qts/acre There is a 14 grazing or haying restriction

Malathion - use 2 pts/acre. No grazing or haying restrictions. If aerial application, use Malathion ULV at 8 to 10 oz/acre.

Mustang Max - 3 to 4 ozs/acre. No grazing restriction.

Hope this helps.
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You forgot........repeat in about 10 days.
 
Thank you everyone, espc BC..

do you know, are these very effective at ERRADICATING them? I am planning to fertilize this weekend, any preference on doing the spray before or after fertilizing?

this is not grazed..just a hayfield..which one..IYO..is the "best" and most effective?

We JUST did first cut..so it will be abit before second cut.
 
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spinandslide":atbx9q15 said:
Thank you everyone, espc BC..

do you know, are these very effective at ERRADICATING them? I am planning to fertilize this weekend, any preference on doing the spray before or after fertilizing?

this is not grazed..just a hayfield..which one..IYO..is the "best" and most effective?

We JUST did first cut..so it will be abit before second cut.
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Got any Guinny hens? I saw a fellow looking for some the other day. He was turning em loose on a field of hoppers.
 
No, I dont..:(

This is a 12 acres field..not sure how effective they'd be..or how they'd deal with the yote population around here.

But its definantly something I perhaps need to look at for next year..right now, Im scrambling to save my next cut of hay from these mo fo's..they are also eating my bushes in my front yard..so Ill be spraying there as well.

Been doing abit of reading.seems they love to lay eggs in undisturbed tall weeds and grass..so this weekend, everying is getting mowed around my place..or poisioned..Im tired of this BS, Hubs is going to have to drag himself off the friggin couch and take care of this...I know hes tired from working all week, but unless he's got some money up his butt to buy roundbales to last us through the winter..he aint got no choice..
 
1982vett":1shvfxki said:
Just wondering.....how big are they. Are they just babies, half grown or full grown adults?
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Adults..but Ive seen afew small "babies"...I saw babies afew weeks ago and you dont think much of them when they are that small..now they are big..one kamikazed off my house right at me last night(I was telling my mother I was going to kill every last one of them..think the hopper heard me? LOL)
 
Yep, I guess you have trouble...about 10 years ago we had several years when they were bad. They got so bad they stripped trees of their leaves. We have a lot of little ones but so far they haven't lived to grow to adults..... :shock: unless this is where yours are coming from.......
 
1982vett":6t4wx7kp said:
Yep, I guess you have trouble...about 10 years ago we had several years when they were bad. They got so bad they stripped trees of their leaves. We have a lot of little ones but so far they haven't lived to grow to adults..... :shock: unless this is where yours are coming from.......
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I need to ask them where they hail from I guess.. ;-)

been asking the folks on our road and they are experiencing the same things we are..as I said, Ive NEVER EVER seen this many adults..you'd be lucky to see 5 adults in a year..

We had a VERY wet, cold winter..then went right into HOT..I dont know if this somehow plays into the scenario or not..Im going to get "hoppin" (no pun) on gaining control of this this weekend..We lost our last cut last year to Army worms, then the bad winter..we ran short on hay..Im not playing that game again.
 
My hay guy is saying Cobalt will take care of them..but we will have to keep reapplying it due to reinfestation from other fields..ugh!
 
spinandslide":1ytaj3ui said:
My hay guy is saying Cobalt will take care of them..but we will have to keep reapplying it due to reinfestation from other fields..ugh!
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:nod: Now you are beginning to understand...
 
Oh, I understand that grasshoppers are now listed next to Flies and mosquitos..the list of "why on earth were they created, except to cause headache and make me part from my money."

Chemical man is saying its $3 an acre..for the chemical..my hayfield is only 5 acres..so its not that bad..more of a headache then anything..
 
Kingfisher is correct...

we have 8 guinea hens... and coyotes... and the guineas patrol about 20 acres of our ranch and keep the bugs down, which in turn keeps away rodents, which then keeps away the rattlers...

I highly recommend them. The only ones we lose are when they nest on the ground and a yote will take advantage of that... but we snag the babies when they're a day old and raise them in the barn until they're fully grown, so we always have 8 +/- in action.
 
Before you use Cobalt, please read the entire label. http://www.cdms.net/LDat/ld8AA009.pdf On page 10 it says do not feed soybean hay that has been treated to meat or dairy animals. Under the orchard section it states that meat or dairy animals are not to be grazed on orchard floors that have been treated.

Remember, the label is the law when it comes to using pesticides.
 
thank you BC for the heads up...

This field is not used for grazing..it is strictly hay..coastal to be exact. for horses and beef cattle.

Based on this(because its not soybean hay and it is not grazed) applying the cobalt should be OK??
 

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