Thread: OT for Farmer

CF, have you had any experience with this?
http://www.greenbook.net/docs/LABEL/L26409.PDF

I am told it is very good stuff. Do you recognize or know about sethoxydim?
I am told this is only available to licensed applicators but I can get around that NP. Appreciate any info if ya are familiar with it.
The only herbicide I really have any experience with outside of on the farm as a kid is Paraquat and I can still get in a bad mood when I think of that.

Originally Posted by horseshoer

CF, have you had any experience with this?
http://www.greenbook.net/docs/LABEL/L26409.PDF

I am told it is very good stuff. Do you recognize or know about sethoxydim?
I am told this is only available to licensed applicators but I can get around that NP. Appreciate any info if ya are familiar with it.
The only herbicide I really have any experience with outside of on the farm as a kid is Paraquat and I can still get in a bad mood when I think of that.

Shoer, Poast is a good herbicide. I think it is used mainly for grass. We used to use it a lot when I was just breaking in my work boots out of High School. We have gotten away from it only because of all the round up technology varieties now. If you decide to use some, use regular poast and spike it with surfactant if you want to make it hotter. There is a Poast plus but BASF is currently in a class action lawsuit for Catching Poast in a Poast plus jug and charging more. In other words it all comes out of the same spigot. They have reformulated some name brands of paraquat to a safer form this year I'm told. That is some dangerous stuff but it works like I like to see herbicides work. Spray weeds this morning, graveyard dead by this evening. Basagran is also a good grass herbicide by BASF. Then there is Fusalade, Select, and Pursuit. You probably would not want Pursuit though because it comes in gallon jugs and is about a thousand dollars a gallon. It would only take an ounce or two to smoke the grass in your whole yard. Dad forgot to put the lid on the jug one day and took of down the road on our spray truck. He saw the chemical gurgling out of the jug in his side mirror then slammed on brakes and put the lid on. He lost about 300 dollars worth of it and it just streamed down the road like dumping water out of a cup slowly going 20 mph down the road. Well, when the next rain came needless to say the state did not have to worry about mowing the sides of the road on that stretch on either side for 400 yards. Poast, Basagran, and fusalade are your cheaper herbicides but work well. Don't apply during hot dry spells. They don't seem to work as well when the grass is stressed. If you are going to use it in your garden MAKE SURE you get a LABEL and check and make sure it won't kill anything in your garden you don't want dead. Hopes this helps. CF

Thank you VERY much, I appreciate it.

I thought about using something like that to kill the weeds in my grass. Then it dawned on me that if I did there wouldn't be anything green in it and I'd probably be attracting things like camels and scorpions. Oh well, I have a good crop of clover this year and the rabbits appreciate it.

Originally Posted by crappiefarmer

Shoer, Poast is a good herbicide. I think it is used mainly for grass. We used to use it a lot when I was just breaking in my work boots out of High School. We have gotten away from it only because of all the round up technology varieties now. If you decide to use some, use regular poast and spike it with surfactant if you want to make it hotter. There is a Poast plus but BASF is currently in a class action lawsuit for Catching Poast in a Poast plus jug and charging more. In other words it all comes out of the same spigot. They have reformulated some name brands of paraquat to a safer form this year I'm told. That is some dangerous stuff but it works like I like to see herbicides work. Spray weeds this morning, graveyard dead by this evening. Basagran is also a good grass herbicide by BASF. Then there is Fusalade, Select, and Pursuit. You probably would not want Pursuit though because it comes in gallon jugs and is about a thousand dollars a gallon. It would only take an ounce or two to smoke the grass in your whole yard. Dad forgot to put the lid on the jug one day and took of down the road on our spray truck. He saw the chemical gurgling out of the jug in his side mirror then slammed on brakes and put the lid on. He lost about 300 dollars worth of it and it just streamed down the road like dumping water out of a cup slowly going 20 mph down the road. Well, when the next rain came needless to say the state did not have to worry about mowing the sides of the road on that stretch on either side for 400 yards. Poast, Basagran, and fusalade are your cheaper herbicides but work well. Don't apply during hot dry spells. They don't seem to work as well when the grass is stressed. If you are going to use it in your garden MAKE SURE you get a LABEL and check and make sure it won't kill anything in your garden you don't want dead. Hopes this helps. CF

Tell me about it. The DEA was crop spraying so many fields in Mexico back in the 60s & 70s us Yanks were almost forced to grow our own Subarctic
Ditchweed in an icehouse under heat lamps to be able to step out for a quality smoke break there for awhile.

I got some Poast comin. The only thing in a garden that it will get is corn.
I'm planting the last section of my garden that was tilled but hasn't been
dug up shovel by shovel and weeded before I plant like the rest of the garden. This is what is comin out. :D

A truck farmer here tells me that even though it is post-emergent to work some into the soil when the garden is idle and it will really go to work. I'll try standard application first.

Does yur Dad give off light in the dark or insist on driving in reverse and push the planter thru the field since the Pursuit Incident? :D

Originally Posted by IBNFSHN

I thought about using something like that to kill the weeds in my grass. Then it dawned on me that if I did there wouldn't be anything green in it and I'd probably be attracting things like camels and scorpions. Oh well, I have a good crop of clover this year and the rabbits appreciate it.

You sound like me Bill. I need to mow my clover today. CF

Originally Posted by horseshoer

I got some Poast comin. The only thing in a garden that it will get is corn.
I'm planting the last section of my garden that was tilled but hasn't been
dug up shovel by shovel and weeded before I plant like the rest of the garden. This is what is comin out. :D

A truck farmer here tells me that even though it is post-emergent to work some into the soil when the garden is idle and it will really go to work. I'll try standard application first.

Does yur Dad give off light in the dark or insist on driving in reverse and push the planter thru the field since the Pursuit Incident? :D

Shoer, He did act a bit quirky behind that incident. He stopped trying to jump the high rise on the Sound bridge with the spray truck and his days of riding it on two wheels are now over.:D CF