Spray for ragweed?

yellow50HX · 22-02-2015 7:50pm #1

Lads do you know if you can spray for ragweed/ragworth?

I take a small meadow that we cut hay from but have noticed that it is starting to get a few more of the fcukers each year. Lad that owns it used to have horses in it for a few years.

td5man · 22-02-2015 7:56pm

yellow50HX wrote: »

Lads do you know if you can spray for ragweed/ragworth?

I take a small meadow that we cut hay from but have noticed that it is starting to get a few more of the fcukers each year. Lad that owns it used to have horses in it for a few years.

Used forefront t last autumn seems to have worked well but it's early days yet.

yellow50HX · 22-02-2015 7:58pm

td5man wrote: »

Used forefront t last autumn seems to have worked well but it's early days yet.

Might have a look at it later in the year.

djmc · 22-02-2015 7:59pm

Yes you can but do it as soon as you can travel ground a few months will be too late and you will have to pull them.
I think a 50/50 mix of agrinox and d50 is the cheapest spray to control them once they are at the rosset stage

td5man · 22-02-2015 8:02pm

Forefront t wouldn't be the cheapest option.

Mad4simmental · 22-02-2015 8:03pm

td5man wrote: »

Used forefront t last autumn seems to have worked well but it's early days yet.

Used that last year and it seems like a savage good spray. Knocked docks out completely.

Coonagh · 22-02-2015 9:58pm

Forefront is very effective but savage dear. I have to spray for ragwort every year and I use D50 with a good adjuvant in either early spring or in late October. Easy weed to kill but timing is everything hit it when it's at rosette and growing.

yellow50HX · 22-02-2015 10:43pm

Spot spraying or tractor?

whelan2 · 23-02-2015 6:30am

yellow50HX wrote: »

Spot spraying or tractor?

always spray with tractor here, also if there is frost it will affect the kill.

whelan2 · 06-03-2015 6:49pm

did anyone spray yet this year? Think of getting some done next week

Nekarsulm · 06-03-2015 8:59pm

Anything heavier than the quad, or a ewe, would sink about here.........:(

whelan2 · 06-03-2015 9:06pm

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Anything heavier than the quad, or a ewe, would sink about here.........:(

same on home farm, but outfarm is as dry as a bone,

whelan2 · 14-03-2015 5:49pm

`sprayed today with thrust

TITANIUM. · 15-03-2015 12:52pm

whelan2 wrote: »

`sprayed today with thrust

Were they up? Walked the farm yesterday on the look out for um. Especially a few fields that were infested with um last year and only found two at the rosette stage. No sign of anything else.

whelan2 · 15-03-2015 1:14pm

Yup plenty of them

td5man · 15-03-2015 2:17pm

TITANIUM. wrote: »

Were they up? Walked the farm yesterday on the look out for um. Especially a few fields that were infested with um last year and only found two at the rosette stage. No sign of anything else.

Very hard to find any here yet, only saw one.

Spray for ragweed?

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