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I guess I should add, my fall plots will be a LC rotation rye blend, half brassica half cereals.

I’m growing a buckwheat crop for the sole purpose of a throw and spray/drag fall plot. I’ve got about a half acre with really strong nutsedge coming in among the buckwheat. I can’t decide if I should spray it now or let the buckwheat go another month? Any ideas? Anything I can spray on the...

All my “main” plots (0.5 acres or more) I split half and half and do half brassicas and half cereal grains. I have a small kill plot that’s only about 0.1 acres. I’m thinking of just doing cereals but it just got me wondering what the smallest plot you’d bother trying to split in half would be...

Ok I found Princep on Amazon, but my question still stands.

I need a jug of simazine for some switchgrass plantings and I can’t find it locally. Also it’s out of stock on keystone, where I bought in the past. A few places have the powdered solid you dissolve in water. I’m hoping someone can save me from trying to read the whole label and let me know if I...

I did include a week of waiting to plant, I thought that was about the length of the residual? I’m thinking this theoretical gly shortage will be a bigger issue on putting in NEW plots, vs maintaining existing plots

Curious about this…. I realize there may not be a perfect alternative allowing you to spray and plant the same day, but as a thought experiment, help me come up with a plan PRETENDING glyphosate no longer existed. Im not an herbicide expert but could you spray 2,4d and clethodim and then wait a...

So... We have about 20 acres of expiring CRP and I DO plan to start to establish small stands of only switch (via spraying and then frost seeding). But I do have some NWSG areas that are pretty thick and stand up well that it would be nice to simply add switch in. Just curious if there was any...

I've got a couple of pretty big fields planted in a CRP-2 mix (big bluestem, indiangrass, coneflower, some goldenrod etc). Is it a total waste of time to overseed CIR switch into that next winter? There's not any cool season grass in these native stands to speak of. For example, they are barely...

I'm gonna ask a seperate question but I have an area that I want to plant Sudangrass this year, and then convert to switchgrass next spring with frost seeding. Any reason to think this this will be an issue? I'm not sure if the sudangrass will re-seed itself? I'm hoping if I frost seed the...

I'm curious about this too. For me, my clover plots seem to go dormant after we get several deeper freezes but it doesn't die off like, say, oats do. I've never paid SUPER close attention but I think it will stay green for quite a while after cold weather, but it may basically stop growing, and...

I had a real nice brassica plot planted mid-July that is struggling right now. My early august planting of peas and oats and clover barely germinated since we got almost no rain in August. Rough year, but I just stocked up on a bunch of Rye as my backup plan.

For that matter, I could also broadcast the seed and mow and then come back with the fertilizer a week or two later? That might be more effective?

Roundup should kill anything. I'd just broadcast my brassica seed and spray roundup only on the clover. The 2,4-D will prevent germination of the brassica seedlings or possibly kill them due to the residual. I've never had anything I couldn't kill with roundup, but I know some have issues...

Round up and 2,4-D are not the same. Roundup the answer is no. There is no residual and no effect on seed. Has to be uptaken through green. 2,4-D has a soil residual so depending on what/when you sprayed and what you planted after it would inhibit germination for some period of time.