Glyphosate (Roundup): kills all plants but doesn’t sterilize soil
Fence lines
May cause Parkinsons, so use PPE
2-4-D + surfactant: (Kills wide-bladed plants & grasses)
blackberry vines
Yarrow and Queen Anne’s lace
Most weeds
Pasture Pro: (stronger):
Sericea Lespedeza
Bad Side of Spraying Herbicides
Don’t spray your entire pasture with herbicides! Why?
It covers the good grass as well as the weeds (your animals are eating it)
You can smell it for up to 2 weeks (what does that imply?)
It’s going in your lungs and bloodstream
I use 3 gallon “backpack” sprayer to spot spray problem areas
What's the Solution for whole pasture???
Picloram: systemic herbicide controls a wide range of broad-leaved weeds including “woody” weeds.
Mix it with Granular Fertilizer, which soaks it up without dissolving the granules.
Farm center requires 4T of fertilizer to mix it
Small pasture?
Grazon comes in 2.5 gallon for $115…so go together with friends.
Buy bagged BALANCED fertilizer. Mix accordingly.
Spread with a lawn fertilizer spreader.
Broadcast with a fertilizer spreader a day or 2 before rain.
Rains dissolves it into the dirt, not on plants, then is taken up from roots
As the name implies, your animals can “graze on”!