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Best Pasture Weed Killer: The Weed Picks the Product
Arkansas trials give a product, a rate and a month for each weed — and for horsenettle, three consecutive years. Look up the weed before you buy a bottle.
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Pasture & Acreage
I have more than a lawn — what changes when animals graze it?
On two acres and up, weed control stops being cosmetic. Herbicide labels carry grazing and haying restrictions measured in days to a year, some pasture weeds are lethal rather than untidy, and the reason the weeds are winning is usually the grazing pattern rather than the chemistry. These guides are for the owner of a paddock, a horse pasture or a rural lot — not a farm, and not a lawn.
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Weed Control
Bare Ground Herbicide: It Reaches Roots You Cannot See
NC State documents imazapyr injuring dogwood, Japanese maple and holly through root uptake. A bare ground herbicide does not stop at the line you sprayed.
Weed Control
Brush Control in Pasture: Mowing Multiflora Rose Spreads It
Penn State: a cane tip touching the ground roots and makes a new plant. Mowing takes three to six passes a season for over a year — or 8 to 10 goats per acre.
Weed Control
Pasture Weed Control: The Label Restriction Comes First
Grazing restrictions run from seven days to a year, and beef and dairy differ. UGA: without cultural practices, herbicide use will not be beneficial.
Weed Control
Toxic Weeds in Horse Pasture: Wilted Leaves Are the Risk
UGA: fresh red maple leaves are not toxic, wilted ones are. Most toxic plants are unpalatable — so the danger is created by running out of forage, not by the plant.
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