Fat Hen Weed

[Derrick Hughes]

I've moved from cropping

 

[Derrick Hughes]

It says on the label you cant use MCPA on grass less than one year old
What can you use then ?

 

[Farmer_Joe]

I got something off the market place here for a re seed it was much cheaper than local supplier. Mine was about 6 months old but got loads of thistles, I sprayed it late and thought it did nothing but it just took a fair while to do its job.

 

[spin cycle]

It says on the label you cant use MCPA on grass less than one year old
What can you use then ?

it might be worth talking to an agronomist.....IIRC you might be able to use 1l/ha...i have same problen BTW

edit....nufarm pasturemaster has 24d and mcpa at 315g/l and can be used on new leys

 

[Bury the Trash]

Spraying everything can become a bit of an obsession.
Just top it with a disc mower with skids added to and swath boards removed. And skirts raised., jeven if it ust takes the top of it off so theres not much to lay and smother.
Top it again in a few weeks timeif it comes back
Then Run sheep over it as long as it's rooted well enough and not too dry .

But not today because its Sunday

 

[Kiss]

Have the same issue here grass was looking good then the fat hen just came from nowhere

Pulled it but the roots came out so couldn’t graze it, can’t spray it because of clover so we went in with the flail mower it’s really knocked the fat hen should be able to graze it soon when the grass has better roots

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Spraying everything can become a bit of an obsession.
Just top it with a disc mower with skids added to and swath boards removed. And skirts raised., jeven if it ust takes the top of it off so theres not much to lay and smother.
Top it again in a few weeks timeif it comes back
Then Run sheep over it as long as it's rooted well enough and not too dry .

But not today because its Sunday

I'm going to try the ride on mower . I cant get low enough with the topper

 

[milkloss]

What are you going to do after spinning some extra seed on? I wouldn’t bother killing the fat hen because it is a nurse crop by keeping some sun off the bare soil and if you spray then it will become a giant blotter to draw the moisture out of the soil.
If you’re going to Harrow the extra seed in I think you’ll kill most of it anyway. I would use headland polo as a spray...... very effective mix of 24d and MCPA but at low concentrations.

I had a thread somewhere but we planted Italian that had some go to it.......

Struggling new ley

i know I’m not the only one as @Nearly was commenting on his and @ollie989898 offered to give advice if I posted pics so here we go. A mix of westerwolds, irg and a little bit of leftover pp mixed in. Round up, disced, dung, lime and power harrowed with a seeder on it. Ring rolled and then...

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[Northern territory]

I never worry about broadleaved weeds to much as they won’t come back year after. Only things like thistles. Chickweed and fat hen won’t.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Only thing that worrys me is choking the grass out. Will top it very low and see . Surprising how fast I get on the the Rideon mower

 

[ollie989898]

Use polo.

Don't leave BLWs in new leys, I've said it a million times. They crowd out the grass, die and then leave huge bare patches. I don't say this for fun.

 

[Bury the Trash]

I'm going to try the ride on mower . I cant get low enough with the topper

toppers are a blunt primitive instrument.

use a straight disc mower, well set so the tractor takes the weight, of particularly the far end, smooth wel lproportioned slides under the bed so as not to do any damage, lift the skirts (put hedgetrimmer mesh guards on windows) and dont have a short toplink. run it with bed level.

all stuff you can learn with experience . best to just try things not keep asking others is what i tell youngsters

 

[Y Fan Wen]

IME sheep will preferentially graze fat hen. So in with the flock for a couple of days and then out again. Repeat as required.

 

[som farmer]

used a kid double chop, years ago, take out the fathen, grass then comes on. Got a spr reseed, sheperds purse and groundsel, are the main weeds, son wanted to spray, but clover very young, so topped it with the mower, brilliant job, groundsel and s purse, annuals, and wont grow back. Funny weeds to have in quantity, but some dry old brashy soil.

 

[Sid]

I had fathen in a reseed few years ago, options were to top or cut and clamp.

I cut and clamp and it all went in the dung heap.

Top it

 

[som farmer]

its a barsteward weed with us, we had problems with FPD in milk, and fertility, cows were grazing a very good crop of fat hen, with forage rape underneath. Searched on the net, Australian site, basically said, it affects fertility and FPD, dry cows/hfrs finished that piece off, and FPD returned to normal.

 

[MJT]

Had problem here 2 years ago with a reseed . Tried to graze it with sheep , they did real well until they starting dying . Then mowed it and round bales it , dry cows ate it no problem once they got used to it .Ley underneath needed a bit of patching but it’s looking great now .

 

[Beames]

I was admiring my crop of fat hen this morning in my reseed and was going to post on here so watching thread with interest. Leaning towards just cutting it and Baling it. Will feed it first then this winter before they get any nice stuff and turn their noses up at it.

 

[Will Blackburn]

I baled a reseed full of red leg and fathen not the best but nothing died.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

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