For those who spray their fields before fall planting.
When do you usually hit your fields? 15, 30, 45 or more days before you want to plant? I know too early gives time for something else to start to grow. Too late and the stalks and root balls wont have enough time to dry and will still be green and harder to disk (or burn).
Our goal is to try and save the time/cost of moving a tractor around and bush hogging prior to planting, and to make disking easier.
We can use the boomless sprayer from the back of a pu truck or 4 wheeler and be much faster and easier to move around on widely spaced fields.

If we are figuring correctly @ a qt per acre of gly its roughly $6 a acre to poison it. Compared to the fuel cost, man hours on the tractor per acre, and hauling tractor back and forth Im thinking wed come out ahead spraying and not bush hogging.


Do any of yall do it this way and not bush hog?

I've already sprayed mine, waiting for them to thin out a little before I do throw and mow. I don't bushhog my fields on my club, I just drag over the dead thatch after sewing my seed.

Mine got bushogged 3 weeks ago, got sprayed Sunday and I plan on planting on my next trip up September 16-24.

I sprayed mine two weeks ago. You can catch gly on sale for about $4.50 per quart. I just need to spray earlier in the summer to try and kill the crab grass before it seeds. I don't know how many years of that it would take to break the cycle.

I'm planning on spraying the week of Sept 11th and broadcasting seed/fertilizer the week of Sept 25th weather permitting.

I did spray a test plot (1 acre on power line hilltop) on Sunday 8/27 that's never been planted before.

We sprayed 10 days ago and will probably disk them the end of September, till them a week or so late then drill them around mind Oct. Planting is contingent upon the weather forecast. We are fortunate to be 24 miles from the farm so getting it done isn't a huge deal.

On a normal year 4-6 weeks prior to planting. But a lot of variables. If the field has tough weeds, ie crab grass, I will spray mid summer and the again 4-6 prior to planting. This year, NOT a normal year due to rain, the dog fennel got so high I disked it down and then will spray 4-6 weeks prior to planting. On tall vegetation for a good kill, the gly needs to get on top of the plant.

I sprayed mine a little over a week ago. I burnt it off and disced this past Friday.

I usually mow, wait for a little new growth then spray. Wait about 2 weeks for a complete kill then burn most of the plots. I've got most fields mowed and will spray when this rain gets out of here.
Some field don't even need to be sprayed, some sprayed and burned and some just sprayed. With all the rain this summer most fields were way too overgrown to even think about just discing

Burning is the way to go but I'm just scared to do it. I'm always by myself and if I burn my stuff is one thing but burning the neighbors stuff is what really scares me.

I got a new property that I been working on this summer. Spraying, discing, liming, etc. but try as I might I'm still am going to have to put a subsoiler on that red clay. I believe without it all the rest is useless.

I was by myself when I burnt mine. I disced the outside edge of my plot for a fire break. One good loop around the field with my drip torch and it was done. It was dry enough that I got a good burn on it.

Nothing wrong with being concerned with it, though.

I cut mine three weeks ago and sprayed about 10 days later, when I saw new growth coming on. It is now dead as dead can be. We will likely plant last weekend of September or first weekend in October, depending on whether or not there is rain in the forecast.

About $5 per quart is what I figured and a $1 for vehicle gas for each field.
Best price Ive found is Agrisupply Gly @ $40 for 2.5 gal but the shipping cost makes it more than buying locally.
Im sure if could buy it in bulk 55 gal drum or larger tote would save a good bit. Might have to ck into that and see if anyone would want to go in on one.




Thats me. I know guys who burn off fields for years with no problems but that probably wouldn't be my luck. But it does make it a lot easier doing it.

I believe in burning. Its great. But I tried burning a dried kudzu patch once. Fire break around it. But all that dried kudzu in trees....BIG,TALL trees. I lit that dried kudzu and it burns like gasoline. BIG, TALL trees on fire and burning vines falling over the fire break. Finally got it out but it put some fear in me on burning.

Yeah, probably not a good idea to light it off with that much ladder fuels.

4-6 weeks prior to planting. This will allow time for all the roots to die and the plant to just crumble up and make it a lot easier to disc. Normally you don't get enough rain for much to sprout up in that amount of time. This year has not been normal as far as rain but am sure that time frame will still work. I use 50oz per 25 gal in my sprayer which will cover about an acre. When those weeds get tall and not growing a lot especially this time of year 32oz per acre is a little light IMO.

I buy the 30gal drums of Cornerstone gly at the Co-Op and it comes out the about $12 a gallon. I've read that you need to keep it from freezing but we leave ours outside under a covered shed and that drum lasts us for at least 2 years. It works as well in year 2 as it did in year 1.

Been burning our fields for 25 years and never had any issues.

I sprayed mine early august with gly and laudis. Then hit it with gramoxone a week ago. Disked up ok yesterday. Will level them after this rain.

21 to 30 days for me before it gets the disk. I'll spray, then in a week hit any missed spots, then give it another week or two .