Best way to kill clover?

Another interesting technique I've seen with perennial clover and non-RR corn was pretty need. The drill was rigged with a sprayer that had nozzles right over the rows that had a narrow spray. They used gly to suppress the clover in each row. This let the corn get started before the clover rebounded. This both fed the corn with N and kept the weeds down. I thought it was a pretty interesting technique.

Thanks,

Jack
This is exactly what i'm working toward but it's going to be a while yet.
 
This is exactly what i'm working toward but it's going to be a while yet.
If I were up north, I would definitely be working on it. Here, we don't need corn for winter. I have thought about doing it with similar crops. I have a little Kasco no-till versa drill. I don't use it much as most of the seeds I plant now T&M well and broadcasting and cultipacking is faster. However, if i could spray, just over the rows a the same time I was planting, it would make the drill much more competitive timewise. Or, if I decided to try a large seeded crop that doesn't surface broadcast well like corn, it would be ideal. I do have a 25 gal boomless sprayer intended for an ATV with its own pump. I could probably rig that up on the drill and find the appropriate nozzles. It would reduce herbicide use. I may try it after I retire and have more free time to mess with stuff.

Thanks,

Jack
 
Reverse seed and plant psychology seems to work. Baby it. Make it think you want it to grow rich and strong. Feed it. Weed it. Talk to it. It will resist your loving advances and make a fool of you - or so it thinks!
 
To help kill plants, you need to spray them while they're active..... Fertilizing a few days or a week before spraying helps. Same goes for adding lime.

Spraying a day or so before a good rain helps, or right after one, once the leaves dry out of course.

Adding ammonium sulfate to a tank of gly helps too. Not only it's a quick acting fertilizer, it also opens up defenses of certain weed cell walls.

Not totally perfect, but a combination of gly and 2,4D is considered to kill pretty much anything.

Mowing during a dry speel or spraying a light dose of gly can set back clover.
 
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Crossbow/Crossroads will kill clover
 
To help kill plants, you need to spray them while they're active..... Fertilizing a few days or a week before spraying helps. Same goes for adding lime.

Spraying a day or so before a good rain helps, or right after one, once the leaves dry out of course.

Adding ammonium sulfate to a tank of gly helps too. Not only it's a quick acting fertilizer, it also opens up defenses of certain weed cell walls.

Not totally perfect, but a combination of gly and 2,4D is considered to kill pretty much anything.

Mowing during a dry speel or spraying a light dose of gly can set back clover.
I sprayed with 2 quarts of gly to 20 gallons of water. Then hit it with the same of 24d. No luck. I'm in a drought up there now so maybe the heat, drought, and dialing will knock it back.
 
Strike 3 will kill it.
 
I sprayed with 2 quarts of gly to 20 gallons of water. Then hit it with the same of 24d. No luck. I'm in a drought up there now so maybe the heat, drought, and dialing will knock it back.
You need to know what your sprayer puts out an acre not just put 20gal in and call it good. Might be the reason you are having a problem killing the clover. Calibrate your sprayer
 
You need to know what your sprayer puts out an acre not just put 20gal in and call it good. Might be the reason you are having a problem killing the clover. Calibrate your sprayer
Yes you are right. My father in law had the same sprayer and he told me 2 quarts of gly for the 25 gallon tank of water and go 4 to 5 mph on the atv. I have sprayed my beans and weeds for years this way and it has worked great. I have almost a almost completely clean kill minus the clover.
 
Yes you are right. My father in law had the same sprayer and he told me 2 quarts of gly for the 25 gallon tank of water and go 4 to 5 mph on the atv. I have sprayed my beans and weeds for years this way and it has worked great. I have almost a almost completely clean kill minus the clover.
I think people are a little crazy on the sprayer calibration.

If you know the plot is an acre, and you sprayed the whole 20 gallons on the acre, you know you sprayed 2 quarts/acre of Gly.

That is all the calibration you need IMO.
 
Clover has grown on me over the years. It’s not super attractive but it’s a great addition around the shady edges of a field and around tree plantings. It’s going to feed deer more months of the year than any other crop outside of soybeans.


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Clover has grown on me over the years. It’s not super attractive but it’s a great addition around the shady edges of a field and around tree plantings. It’s going to feed deer more months of the year than any other crop outside of soybeans.


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Yep but is a lot cheaper and easier to maintain. And if you have a drill, you can just drill a grain into it every fall.
 
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