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JayinNY

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For some reason we have a few patches oh milkweed in the hay fields. I have a field on one side of the road and another guy has a field on the other side of the road, we baled the same time in June. Well I saw the other day he brush hogged the spots were he had milk weed! Will that maybe kill the weed? I was thinking of doing the same if I get time! Monkey see monkey do! Lol, I was gonna stop in and ask him why he mowed it! Maybe to knock it down befor it reseeds?!!
 
It does come back, I've had it come up in the nearby field, funny when it gets dry like it has, it will wilt and die or look dead, no pods, I used to think that was great no seeds, it dies off, uh no... comes back.

I've done that with birdox, spot mowed it, horse's tails and that don't mix, that seems to work well as it don't come back unless it drops seed.
 
I don't know about milkweed in particular... but a lot of things can be killed off by mowing them before they set seed or at their most vunerable time. This should be a dandy year for killing something off because of the dry weather. It's going to want to regrow right away and it will deplete it's roots to do that... and hopefully it depletes it's roots enough that it doesn't winter.
That tends to work quite well with various members of the thistle family.

Rod
 
I spot sprayed 2 years in addition to my normal cutting and the milkweed still flourished. Last year I cut one patch 3-4 times during the season and it killed it off, nothing came up this year.

Hoping to try that on several of my fields.
 
If you catch it before it flowers and all you can slow it down a whole lot and if you do so often enough almost get rid of it. But you will never get rid of it 100% because some one up or down the road will let it go to seed then you have it back
 
Most weeds have a higher nutritional value than the grasses in a hayfield and the cows usually pull them out of the bale to eat them first and the goats always eat the weeds first.
 
Is this grass of alfalfa? If grass I would spray it. Says on the label how long after spraying you can cut it for feed. We pulled the same milk weed patches for 30 yrs. Never put a dent in it until we started spraying.
 
I hate Weeds....Weeds hate me. The hay fields that I have taken over have about every kind of weed there is. We are just starting to get things under control by Mowing often and spraying right after mowing when things start to grow again. We have used roundup in the past, and now trying Mile Stone, and Escort. I have also planted lots of clover to try and over power the weeds. OK WEEDS MAKE MY DAY.
 
Mowing it will just stimulate it. Roots go way deep. Spot spray with roundup. Never let it pod out and go to seed. And if does go to seed, but the pods off by hand and burn in the shop stove.

If you fight it by the county road or state highway doesn't then you may as well give up. Like others have said, seeds drift a long way.

Been fighting them before Roundup was approved for spot spraying. Around the mid 70'.

Gene
 
Spraying after mowing is usually the wrong way to do it. It needs some growth before spraying. Have seen a lot of people try to control their weeds this way and it doesn't work very well. For example Shumake, had a neighbor that would mow it off every fall then spray it come spring and never killed it, but if you wait till it grows up in the spring, June around here, then spray it kills it dead with just 2-4D.
 
I should mention first year milkweed can be controlled much easier, it"s the established patches that require so much effort and respraying multiple times. To those who use roundup, how do you get it to be effective, I just get regrowth adjacent to the killed plant.
 
Don't use Roundup in the hay field RU will kill the grasses also and that allows more weeds to grow. Use a broadleaf pasture herbicide. Grazon P+D is a good one. Milestone is good.
 
a lot of farmers export it with their hay,I still have cape tulip which I imported in hay in 2001.
There is money in recycling.
 
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