Nettles!!!

I am getting a bit disillusioned about chemical treatments. I quite understand these chemicals make the weeds look sick and appear to go down. But there is no Joe Frazier effect. They go down but sadly come back to life.
Here is a pic of some docks we had sprayed off last season with the recommended chemical sprayed by a professional ie not us😄
Looks like it was a foliar feed not a killer.
The lines are the drains we renewed not spray misses.
I am wondering what to do this year.View attachment 1037390

You will not control an infestation that dense just one pass I'm afraid. You have docks there at a myriad of growth stages, you will control a good portion of them, but others will invariably not get enough spray.
 
@ollie989898 would it be ok to add hurler to thistlex to beef up the kill on nettles ??
Its a 17 acre field formerly used by the horsey crowd and its covered with buck thistles thistles and big clumps of nettles as well as the odd ragwort .
Would like to spray it before letting out calves .
If i had got possesion earlier i would have ploughed it but its grazing for this year
Tia

You can tank mix them and I have done so before. Basically Pastor was a combination of both Dow products.

The original doxstar was fluroxypyr and triclopyr.

The original thistleX was clopyralid (as is in shield) and triclopyr.

The original pastor contained all three actives. This gave good activity on docks, thistles and nettles. Where I had a good old mess of weeds I would have normally use pastor. Mostly I tended to stick with using doxstar or thistleX if problems were more limited.

I am not surprised if people found better activity on nettles with thistleX as it had a stiffer loading of active ingredients in it (hence Pastor had a much higher label rate).


Going from memory I do not believe any of these products listed control ragwort at all and I have never made a recommendation for any of these three products for ragwort.

As with all grassland spraying, you do need warm weather and active growth and sensible and happy looking weeds. Good water volumes, steady spraying and adjuvants all help a great deal, too. Unlike weeds in normal crops, in grassland you are mostly dealing with weeds grown from extensive or sizeable rootstocks so they are very touch to control or kill.

Do not be fooled by weeds appearing to curl over/wilt within 48 hours of spraying- most herbicides will cause this effect: it's because of the solvents/surfactants used dewax the weeds and they lose moisture/turgor. It is not a reliable sign of efficacy.

I recognise that virtually any of the herbicide programs I have mentioned before on TFF or elsewhere will be pricey because of the rates I have used. However, one must weigh up the fact that these treatments are all massively cheaper than reseeding and the inevitable drop in forage or pasture quality.

Also remember where you are considering treatments on land that will only be destined for grazing this season you may also consider using forefront, I cannot remember if forefront has ragwort on the label, however.
 

Razor8

Member
Location
Ireland
Snapped the side of pump when pipe got caught under quad spraying with Grazon pro. Got a pretty wet backside very quickly.

had a shower after. Has anyone had adverse reactions to similar accidental contact??
 

Bury the Trash

Member
Mixed Farmer
Snapped the side of pump when pipe got caught under quad spraying with Grazon pro. Got a pretty wet backside very quickly.

had a shower after. Has anyone had adverse reactions to similar accidental contact??
you will be ok, wash off asap is good call and also it was diluted remember not the concentrate from the bottle
Skin is quite a good protector in the relative short term as long as its not broken like in a cut etc.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 80 42.3%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 66 34.9%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 15.9%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 7 3.7%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

  • 1,293
  • 1
As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
Top