Strategies for controlling docks.

[davidroberts30]

Minstrel et is so cheap you can't go wrong even if you spray them twice.

Use plenty of water, steady spraying and use an adjuvant. I can't stress this enough. Grassland spraying is totally unlike spraying in a usual crop because you are looking at weeds often a serious root mass involved, they haven't grown from seed.

Best time to hit them is after 2nd or 3rd cut when they all at same growth stage
2 to 3 weeks after cutting

 

[Cows 'n grass]

Minstrel et is so cheap you can't go wrong even if you spray them twice.

Use plenty of water, steady spraying and use an adjuvant. I can't stress this enough. Grassland spraying is totally unlike spraying in a usual crop because you are looking at weeds often a serious root mass involved, they haven't grown from seed.

Minstrel/Hatchet/Hurlur etc were so cheap 2/3 years ago. It doubled in price last year and jumped again this year so it's virtually the same price as branded dockstar now.

If you get the timing right these chems work well but they certainly aren't cheap any more.

 

[The Agrarian]

Back to faithful 3rd rate ally?

 

[ollie989898]

Minstrel/Hatchet/Hurlur etc were so cheap 2/3 years ago. It doubled in price last year and jumped again this year so it's virtually the same price as branded dockstar now.

If you get the timing right these chems work well but they certainly aren't cheap any more.

That being the case I would stick with doxstar as it is definitely more effective.

 

[ollie989898]

Best time to hit them is after 2nd or 3rd cut when they all at same growth stage
2 to 3 weeks after cutting

I agree. Not only that but the weather will be warmer so you get better efficacy.

 

[Davy]

Back to faithful 3rd rate ally?

What's your experience of this? I was advised to only do it after the field is closed up for the year.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Carryover cows/dry cows/calves mop them up, but picky dairy cows walk past them and go eat minerals provided

just have a stock class you can afford to do non-selective grazing with, doesn't have to be sheep

 

[The Agrarian]

I've never seen dry cows eat docks. Well, we can rarely stock them tight enough to make them eat them without destroying the ground underfoot. These ideas work in dry climates.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Yeah, up to about 8m of rainfall. More than that and it doesn't work well with cattle

 

[davidroberts30]

What's your experience of this? I was advised to only do it after the field is closed up for the year.

it will stunt the grass for a few weeks but murder the docks

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Yes thats what the label says but didn't know if you had had success at lower rates
Sprayed ours today @1.5ltr

Only on new grass seed
How did you get on ?

 

[YELROM]

Only on new grass seed
How did you get on ?

Will go and have a look when i have a minute

 

[YELROM]

It has got most of the docks but a few of the worst patches are coming back
Could well of still come back at a higher rate though

 

[milkloss]

It has got most of the docks but a few of the worst patches are coming back
Could well of still come back at a higher rate though View attachment 990752

I think you may have got the same effect with 1ltr. Use the other one when they come back like above along with some more seedlings in the dead patch.