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i have fescue / brome / prairie pasture areas that are becoming infested with a sage plant and broadlead weeds . Anyone have a preferred spray combination they would recommend. These are horse pastures , grazed , not hayed and the grass is still pretty good but a couple dry years have given these damn weeds a boost. ocated in Kansas , I'll get an ag extension consult but I'd value your folks input !
 
I live in a different part of the world - so what we do here may not work where you live - but it might give you some options. I liked the fact you plan to chat with your ag officer - wish we had them in Canada - but we do not. At least not in my part of the country.

I do however have a couple of very good ag guys who work for some fert and seed and chemical companies that provide excellent advice - often for free as we buy their products.

I wrote this a while back and thought I might paste it in here - some of it is not applicable but some of it is. It also mentions soil analysis - something that is vital to keeping a pasture working properly - you might try it.

It takes a little time but it takes less money and you can have a pretty decent pasture up and running.

It also shows the value of doing a search for past topics.

Regards,

Bez+

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Well, I live in a different part of the world, but here is how I turn pastures that are fairly smooth into hay fields.

Am in the process again this year and using an 8 foot Rhino brush cutter to help.

4 turns over the field usually does it.

First thing is to bring in a crop guy named Rodney. He does a soil analysis and weed study for me. The cost for this is usually lunch and about 200 bucks for the work - including a GPS map so I know how big the field is - exactly.

Then I brush it out after the grass and weeds start growing good. This is done just before the weeds flower - preventing any seeds from falling. First time over the field.

Then I wait until the cut field starts growing good.

We spray out the weeds and broad leaf plants. I always try to leave the grass growing. I usually do this about the end of July for us in this part of the world. Second time over the field.

Then I either drag a no till drill with grass and fert over the field in the fall - just before frost stays in the ground - or I sometimes just broadcast the seed and fert. Third time over the field.

Next spring / summer - just before I think about haying I brush cut the field to knock down any weeds that come up in the spring. Fourth and last time over the field before haying.

Then I do all the hay in the other fields and go back to this field late in the hay season and take a crop of hay - no matter the size of the crop.

I now have a field that has decent grass - very few weeds and those weeds will likely not be back because I have taken the plants before they could go to seed. No weed plants have seeded this field for two years.

The following year - now year three I make sure I take the field for hay just before any of those stubborn weeds can go to seed.

I feed all the hay to the cows weeds and all - they truly do know how to sort out the edibles from the non-edibles.

Field is done and there is little expense in getting it there. Takes a while but it works and it is cheap and ..... I have about 50 more acres to do like this and I am done.

This is how I do it where I live - probably a dozen other methods but this one works for me.

Regards

Bez+
 

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