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Herbicides & Warm-Season Food Plots

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What herbicides do y'all use for the following food plots or know that would be safe to use? I'm thinking about using 2-4DB but I'm not certain if I can use it in Iron Clay Peas/Milo and Alyce Clover plots.

I'm going to be planting the following next Spring instead of this year due to timber being cut on our properties all summer long.

Spring 2015:

1) Chufa (Turkeys)

2) Alyce Clover (Deer)

3) Iron Clay Peas / Milo (Deer/Turkeys)
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For Chufa use Arrow/Select or Post for grasses and 2-4db (butyrac) for broadleaf weeds. You can also use 2-4d Amine for broadleafs in Chufa.
As long as I don't spray the leaves,
Is 41% Glyphosate safe to spray around oaks/fruit trees?


I am going to mow as close as I can get to the trees with my new Swisher 52" Rough-Cut Mower and try to get the remaining weeds around the trees with 41% Glyphosate.
As long as I don't spray the leaves,
Is 41% Glyphosate safe to spray around oaks/fruit trees?

I am going to mow as close as I can get to the trees with my new Swisher 52" Rough-Cut Mower and try to get the remaining weeds around the trees with 41% Glyphosate.
Yes, its safe will only kill leaves you spray
Yes, its safe will only kill leaves you spray
Gibowhunter,
Thank you so much for the info!That takes a lot of anxiety off my mind!
I've never seen roundup phase yellow nutsedge. Chufa is basically the same plant.

Things you can use pre and post emerge in your peas will kill the milo, and vice versa. I put sunflowers with my peas for this reason.
I've never seen roundup phase yellow nutsedge.
Wingman,
I have spot sprayed yellow nutsedge using 5 ounces of glyphosate and one or two additional ounces of surfactant per gallon of water. This mix will kill most everything!
So you're saying 5 oz will kill the nutsedge?
I've never seen roundup phase yellow nutsedge. Chufa is basically the same plant.

Things you can use pre and post emerge in your peas will kill the milo, and vice versa. I put sunflowers with my peas for this reason.
Last year Tractor Supply had Rodeo on sale...aquatic Roundup at 53% and it will flat out smoke Nutsedge/Chufa. You probably need a good surfactant that will stick to the leaf blades of Chufas and Nutsedges.
So you're saying 5 oz will kill the nutsedge?
No doubt about it!!!
Well I could've sworn I've sprayed it with a quart before and it didn't phase it. Maybe it came up after I sprayed it.
Well I could've sworn I've sprayed it with a quart before and it didn't phase it. Maybe it came up after I sprayed it.
Might be what happened. Chufa is a tough son-of-a-gun. I've sprayed a last year Chufa patch twice this year already with the Rodeo (and burned it down) and it will continue to come up from the Tubers and the Rhizomes. That is the reason some states declare it a noxious weed. Guidelines for Chufa say to move your Chufa plots in rotation....I can see that being a very serious problem...basically you're helping to spread it everywhere. I'm fixing to hit that patch with a liberal dose of Image.
Ok, I planted 1-acre of Chufa first week in July & came back 3 weeks later and sprayed with 2-4-DB at 3 oz/gallon (20gallons). I checked it last week and it didn't even phrase the weeds. No effectively dying weeds.

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30PoinBuck try spraying it with 2-4d Amine at the recommended rate for Chufa. You can spray Chufa with 2-4d Amine (at the correct rate) w/out harming your Chufa. I'm gonna say the 2-4db is only effective on tough broadleaf weeds when they are in their emerging or very early stages. After that point go with 2-4d Amine. You may see that after spraying with 2-4d Amine that your Chufa will turn a bit yellow but in my experience it will not harm the Chufa otherwise.
30PoinBuck try spraying it with 2-4d Amine at the recommended rate for Chufa. You can spray Chufa with 2-4d Amine (at the correct rate) w/out harming your Chufa. I'm gonna say the 2-4db is only effective on tough broadleaf weeds when they are in their emerging or very early stages. After that point go with 2-4d Amine. You may see that after spraying with 2-4d Amine that your Chufa will turn a bit yellow but in my experience it will not harm the Chufa otherwise.
10-4. I need to read up on it because I do have some young oaks around the food plots so I want to make sure to be as careful as possible not to kill them.
That appears to be heliotrope based on what I can tell. It showed up alongside corn in one of our duck holes this season. I sprayed it with Weedestroy AM40 (2,4D) at 32oz per acre (15 GPA) to promote the sedges underneath. Three days after spraying, the leaves were black and yellow.
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