Pictures from a skid steer mowing contractor

[Lineman North Florida]

Early start this morning as soon as it got daylight I was in one of my hayfields spraying to keep out the bahia and crabgrass, I use a GPS which puts me + or - an inch or so which is really helpful to a small producer like me trying to make every lick count, then I headed to a little mowing job about 6 miles from home and got it knocked out and almost made it home by lunch. Probably gonna lay low for a few hours because it is smoking hot down here, then back at it later this afternoon.

 

[EddieWalker]

That's a real nice sprayer, and even better that you have GPS!!!!!

What are you spraying to kill off the bahia? I hate the stuff, but it's what grows here naturally. I'd prefer Coastal Bermuda, but the bahia chokes it out.

 

[Hay Dude]

I don’t like breaking out the sprayer, but sometimes, you gotta.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

That's a real nice sprayer, and even better that you have GPS!!!!!

What are you spraying to kill off the bahia? I hate the stuff, but it's what grows here naturally. I'd prefer Coastal Bermuda, but the bahia chokes it out.

My business is building and maintaining athletic fields. I use the active ingredient 'metsulfuron' for control of bahia grass in athletic fields. It is also the best thing for Virginia Buttonweed control, and a few other broadleaf weeds. And it is inexpensive. I'm not sure how, or if, it is labeled for pastures, but I think it is.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

That's a real nice sprayer, and even better that you have GPS!!!!!

What are you spraying to kill off the bahia? I hate the stuff, but it's what grows here naturally. I'd prefer Coastal Bermuda, but the bahia chokes it out.

Yeah this a coastal bermuda field, so I try to keep bahia and crabgrass to a minimum in this field for the horse hay people, I have other fields that I cut for cow hay and I love the bahia and the crabgrass, so do horses by the way, it's just their owners who think they know more than the horse does about what he likes. I sprayed this with MSM 60, between that and 2,4,D I can pretty well keep it clean, occasionly I will spot spray Impose for Vasey grass but I try to keep it to a minimum.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

My business is building and maintaining athletic fields. I use the active ingredient 'metsulfuron' for control of bahia grass in athletic fields. It is also the best thing for Virginia Buttonweed control, and a few other broadleaf weeds. And it is inexpensive. I'm not sure how, or if, it is labeled for pastures, but I think it is.

That is the main ingredient in MSM 60 which is what I spray my coastal bermuda fields with, it comes in a granular form an I use a half ounce to the acre, the sprayer is set up to put 20 gallons to the acre.

 

[japody]

Yeah this a coastal bermuda field, so I try to keep bahia and crabgrass to a minimum in this field for the horse hay people, I have other fields that I cut for cow hay and I love the bahia and the crabgrass, so do horses by the way, it's just their owners who think they know more than the horse does about what he likes. I sprayed this with MSM 60, between that and 2,4,D I can pretty well keep it clean, occasionly I will spot spray Impose for Vasey grass but I try to keep it to a minimum.

I see a lot of mule tail in that field. I've got a good crop of that. What do you do for that?

 

[Lineman North Florida]

I see a lot of mule tail in that field. I've got a good crop of that. What do you do for that?

If you are talking about dog fennels 2,4,D will smoke them, but usually just mowing them short will do them in.

 

[Hay Dude]

The problem with spraying (at least I found) is that it reduces tonnage dramatically, since it also kills edible, safe weeds. Plus it takes away your organic status for years.
I use it as a last resort but have no problem with anyone using spray.

 

[Lineman North Florida]

The problem with spraying (at least I found) is that it reduces tonnage dramatically, since it also kills edible, safe weeds. Plus it takes away your organic status for years.
I use it as a last resort but have no problem with anyone using spray.

It also sets your grass back a couple of weeks, unfortunately down here it doesn't take long for a field to get away from you and be more weeds than grass, and I don't really know why that is unless it's due to our mostly mild winters. My neighbor doesn't use any herbicide , pesticide or fertilizer on one small bahia field that he bales for a group of people who are naturalist and they feed it to their cows and goats, it's full of weeds and has a reduced nutritional value ( low protein) but it is what they want and he has a market for it.