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Miscanthus will be an option we are still weighing and might be directly in front of the blind. The rest of the unused area (non-plot) will be switchgrass. I should have spelled that out a little better. Those areas will be ~3 acres and too much for miscanthus.

We recently purchased a property and removed some ground from CRP for an area to create destination food. Alongside this destination food, we want to border it with switchgrass to screen our access. This field is on a pretty decent east facing hillside. I would say moderate to likely erosion...

That is definitely not switchgrass.

Clopyralid (thistle down, Stinger, sonora) will target thistles. Otherwise 2,4-D and dicamba (weedmaster) will kill them and other broadleafs. Spot spraying will be best no matter which chemical used. Might be better off to chop them down with a weed whip or shovel and treat them next year...

Wait until it is at least a foot tall and mow once. From mid July to mid August switch will grow faster than about anything else. Adjust your plans accordingly. Biggest concern at this point is that you drilled and there aren't any visible lines, your weed control wasn't good enough. Good news...

Do you guys want your grass stands to be that clean so they stand tall for screening? Around here in SE MN deer rarely utilize clean stands of switch for anything but security cover. Best to have some diversity if you want deer to spend time in there, IMO.

Fwiw, Keystone Pest says damage to forbs may be possible, especially legumes. Guy I bought seed from says label rates should he safe for most forbs but could injure them. Guy from the county says it'll kill all the forbs. Responses are all over the map.

I have a third year tall grass prairie that is NOT in the CRP program. I purchased the mix and planted it without govt intervention. It looks beautiful and there is an exceptional amount of deer sign. I'm looking to control some Canada thistle and bull thistle with my boom sprayer. I have...

2 weeks? Looks like closer to 4-6 weeks of growth. T_max, I broadcast RC Big Rock last March and cultipacked on moist soil and sprayed atrazine. Turned out great for a first year stand in most areas ~4' of growth. That's with a D4 drought in SW WI. I overseeded some thin areas but switch...

All my tanks are buried and I plant a perennial clover/fescue mix around them so that I can keep it mowed. I don't think deer want a bunch of cover around when they drink, they feel pretty vulnerable (I believe).

Skip do you have different beans in that planter? Are you just running different maturity dates or experimenting with the things you talk about in the video? On a side note, I've read where several people state that deer don't browse on the leaves of enlist beans as often as they do other...

I've had even second and third year switch turn a purple color from quinclorac but it still kept growing and eventually hit normal heights. Definitely not something I would try on first year switch but I'm also a chicken about this stuff.

Th Thanks, the co-op was telling me that status would be an option but that looks pretty expensive. My guess is I have a good month before I need to put something on at this point.

Conventional tilled to a field that was burned down a few weeks previously.

May be worth cultipacking the area when soil is moist to push seeds down as much as possible?

So I planted my 2 acres of corn this weekend in between rains and was planning to put some pre-emergent down, while emptying my sprayer the nozzle to the tank cracked. So I'm DOA on the pre emergent (atrazine). I won't be back to the property for a few weeks most likely, is there something I can...

Sorry I meant for 2,4-D on corn

For those of you putting down 2,4D for burn down, don't you worry about the plant back time or not? I'm kind of a chicken sh*t so I don't usually take any chances on that kind of stuff.

Label rate of atrazine won't hurt, there's already some broadleafs in there.

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