milkweed

hrRoss · Jun 22, 2017

i have an extremly good catch of milkweed in my soybean field. happens to be the worst along state hwy. had it in the corn last year,didnt bother much, corn grew right past it, kinda fergot about it till this year. no-till beans, sprayed roundup before planting. any solutions? pulling by hand is a solution, need about 20 people for 1 day

Geo-TH,In · Jun 22, 2017

Before I was in the first grade, dad would pay us very little, say about a dime/100, to pull milkweeds out of the soybeans. There was some advantage to having a lot of kids and being a farmer. Dad had 6 kids.

For some reason, I'll never forget pulling milkweeds. Guess it because it might have been my first paying job.

showcrop · Jun 22, 2017

I have never had success pulling it by hand. I don't have any that I can see anymore, because I sprayed it after second cut using my 2.5 gal. hand sprayer.

Hotflashjr · Jun 22, 2017

Backpack sprayer and round-up. Had this in a field I used to grow pumpkins in real bad. Spent some time one season spraying it all real well and it did not come back the next season. I never had luck pulling it up by hand. Just broke and then its back. Even cultivating didn't always get it by the root.

paul · Jun 22, 2017

Conventional soybeans or roundup beans?

Roundup if they are.

Several herbicides work in conventional beans as well, depending on the size of the beans and size of the milkweeds.

Thry used to be a noxious weed. Now city folk are getting milkweed seed and spreading the seed as they bike through the country, it's encouraged every spring on the big city news stations.

Paul

BhB · Jun 22, 2017

what is the reason they would want to plant milkweed?

johnlobb · Jun 22, 2017

I've read the only place Monarch butterflys will lay their eggs is on milkweed.

Traditional Farmer · Jun 22, 2017

An old fellow used to related to me how my great grandfather gave him his first job when he was around 6 years old,he was paid 10 cents a day to keep the chickens
out of the garden.This was probably around 1900.

showcrop · Jun 22, 2017

(quoted from post at 04:56:57 06/22/17) what is the reason they would want to plant milkweed?

I googled it. It appears that it is in order to have more monarch butterflies. So if you want more monarch butterflies, but you don't have your own place to grow milkweed, just get the seeds and toss them into the nice farmers fields as you go bike riding through the country side.

JD Seller · Jun 22, 2017

Like John Posted only place Monarch butterflies will lay their eggs is on milkweed. The increased use of Round Up has made controlling milk weed easier so we HAVE changed the habitat to the point that the Monarch is threatened. I have some acres in a pasture I let milk weed grow on. I have seen a few more Monarchs there. I hate to seed weeds growing but I also liked seeing Monarchs too. So what can we do and still raise good crops????

coshoo · Jun 22, 2017

My dad first learned about tansy ragwort (noxious weed poisonous to cattle) in about 1957- offered my sister and I 10 cents a plant to go find it and pull it. We gave up after wandering around 250 acres for a couple of days and only made a dollar. The project would have become much more lucrative a few years later, but by then, the deal was off.

centash · Jun 22, 2017

Let the people in town have their lawns grow milkweed.....habitat for the monarchs, no environmentally harmful grass cutting...good for everyone! Ben

pete 23 · Jun 22, 2017

Mom gave my brother and me a dime a week to feed the chickens. That of course was on top of feeding and clothing us.

Texasmark1 · Jun 22, 2017

Thanks, that's thoughtful!

Bob in SD · Jun 22, 2017

I have a section of the garden that isn't being used this year. There's probably a 5 foot by 5 foot patch of milkweed I was ignoring (for the butterflies, based on something my daughter was taught in elementary school).

Any harm in letting them go? I have this section in "grass" right now, so I mow and hoe out any thistles. May hit it with 2,4d in the fall.

Will the milkweed cause problems if I keep the thistles pulled by hand?

David G · Jun 22, 2017

I think you will be looking at 10 bucks an hour per person, so do the math, leave it, or spray

WGM · Jun 22, 2017

I will be seeding new CRP ground in August and the FSA required seed mix includes milkweed seed, about eight ounces spread over 38 acres.

Bob Harvey · Jun 22, 2017

In that time, he could get 2 beers and a free lunch ! ;^)

2x4 · Jun 23, 2017

my first job also. 50 cents a day & glad to get it. $5.50 would buy a new Red Ryder BB gun.

mj · Jun 23, 2017

(quoted from post at 05:49:09 06/22/17) Conventional soybeans or roundup beans?

Roundup if they are.

Several herbicides work in conventional beans as well, depending on the size of the beans and size of the milkweeds.

Thry used to be a noxious weed. Now city folk are getting milkweed seed and spreading the seed as they bike through the country, it's encouraged every spring on the big city news stations.

Paul

[b:9e3773de77]DANG[/b:9e3773de77] them peddle-heads, anyway! :twisted:

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