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[S.T.Fanatic]

Thank your lucky stars! My pigweed drinks up gly like lemonade and asks for more. It’s almost like feeding it because it kills most anything that competes with it and it’s watching and laugh at me.

how tall is the pig weed when you spray it with gly? I hit mine when its about 3" tall.

 

[Catscratch]

how tall is the pig weed when you spray it with gly? I hit mine when its about 3" tall.

I doesn't matter how short it is, spraying with gly only removes competition. Bill and I probably have Palmer amaranth, and you probably have a different pigweed.
Palmer amaranth is bad stuff. I've had it in my driveway before where I sprayed it once a week, mowed it, and drove over it with my truck every single day. The damn stuff just grows a massive root and waits for you to slack off a little then sprout up with 10,000 seeds ready to go.

 

[Tree Spud]

I doesn't matter how short it is, spraying with gly only removes competition. Bill and I probably have Palmer amaranth, and you probably have a different pigweed.
Palmer amaranth is bad stuff. I've had it in my driveway before where I sprayed it once a week, mowed it, and drove over it with my truck every single day. The damn stuff just grows a massive root and waits for you to slack off a little then sprout up with 10,000 seeds ready to go.

Had a 1 acre plot with RR beans. Sprayed 3 times with Gly and the pigweed did not disappear. I knocked it back, but about 1/3 of the plot still has some.

I over seed every year with WR and that has no impact on the pigweed.

I am thinking of possibly not planting here at all for the 1st 2/3 of the season. Spray, mechanical tilling, re-grow & repeat.

Any other thoughts on dealing with this stuff?

 

[Catscratch]

Had a 1 acre plot with RR beans. Sprayed 3 times with Gly and the pigweed did not disappear. I knocked it back, but about 1/3 of the plot still has some.

I over seed every year with WR and that has no impact on the pigweed.

I am thinking of possibly not planting here at all for the 1st 2/3 of the season. Spray, mechanical tilling, re-grow & repeat.

Any other thoughts on dealing with this stuff?

Plant to Liberty beans. That herbicide will kill it, and it allows you to keep something growing.

 

[Mortenson]

It will kill it for now! Until someday when it doesn't.

 

[Catscratch]

It will kill it for now! Until someday when it doesn't.

Don't worry, Monsanto will have a new product line come out just in time to counteract the new resistance. :)

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

It will kill it for now! Until someday when it doesn't.

Till, Liberty, Winter Rye, No till, No till, no till,......

Once the liberty kills it off and you keep a cover growing every year and use no till, the germination rate will be less and less every year

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

Palmer amaranth

My uncle was talking about that stuff last year (At least I think thats what is was). There have been reports of it in Iowa but not up here yet. He said once it gets here he's going to quit farming. (if thats what he was referring to)

 

[Bill]

I doesn't matter how short it is, spraying with gly only removes competition. Bill and I probably have Palmer amaranth, and you probably have a different pigweed.
Palmer amaranth is bad stuff. I've had it in my driveway before where I sprayed it once a week, mowed it, and drove over it with my truck every single day. The damn stuff just grows a massive root and waits for you to slack off a little then sprout up with 10,000 seeds ready to go.

I try to spray when it’s small. Problem is when I have a canopy of beans 18” tall and the pigweed seed heads start popping through. I believe my devil is red root pigweed Amaranthus retroflexus. But I could be wrong.

 

[Bill]

I am thinking of possibly not planting here at all for the 1st 2/3 of the season. Spray, mechanical tilling, re-grow & repeat.

Any other thoughts on dealing with this stuff?

I converted one 2 acre bean field into clover a few years back. Been mowing ever since. I may try beans again this year to see if any of the 10 trillion seeds died off. Doubtful, I think the seeds are viable for like 20 years

 

[homerj]

Palmer Amaranth has been in MN for at least 3 growing seasons. https://www.mda.state.mn.us/plants-insects/palmer-amaranth-minnesota

 

[kl9]

So my uncle was able to capitalize on all my time, money, and careful planning that went into planting a beautiful stand of sugar beets.

Thanks to the idiots in charge of the Minnesota DNR this is the second buck he shot this year. Good for him but I’m more than frustrated to say the least.


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I forget, are you Winona or Houston co?


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[S.T.Fanatic]

Up in Winona county


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