Mare's tail problems

Butch(OH)

Well-known Member
Have a big Mare's tail problem around my buildings. What will kill it that wont drift? Last year I sprayed 2,4-D and it killed the mare's tail just fine, but my garden patch is down wind and it drifted dang near a 100 yards away and knocked the heck out of my garden too, especially my tomato plants.

Thanks in advance!
 
Wind wasnt blowing at all when I sprayed it. Next day it was hot and a little breeze was all it took.
 
When its hot 2-4d will atomize and drift without wind. I have had good luck with liberty on it in my bean fields.
 
My local coop has it bulk, try a local coop or fertilizer plant and see if they will put some in a jug for you.
 
If tomatoes get a wiff of that Liberty, they will be dead too. How do you think us farmers do it on the millions of acres we spray? We wait until there is right wind speed and direction. Really kinda simple if you think about it. You should have learned all this when you got you're pesticide applicators certificate.
 
check your 24d label if it is ester formula it has a bad tendency for drift regardless of application methods especially in hot weather, the amine formula doesn't have as bad of a problem with drift.
 
And I will say for the second time, the wind wasn't blowing when I applied it. However it was hot the next couple days and as it is well known to do the 2,4-d evaporated, or whatever it is called, in the heat and the prevailing breezes took it toward the garden patch where only highly susceptible plants, the tomatoes were affected. This was not a deal where a wind took it sideways during application, don't know how much plainer I can make it?
 
Volatilized is the word you are looking for. Liberty and Roundup do not. Roundup will probably not kill it. Something like Crossbow might but it has 2,4-D in it. We have had very good luck with Milestone for noxious weeds. Might work on marestail and it does not volatilize. I don't think Gramaxone does either. That crap is getting very hard to kill and this time of year it may be too late. Brush blade on a weed eater may be the best option.
AaronSEIA
 
flying belgian, Iam with you, you will learn this stuff when you go for your applicators and handlers certificate
 
There is a product called "sharpen" that works extremely well on mares tail, but it is exspensive and the application rate is only 1 ounce per acre. So buying and measuring in small quantities is not very handy for lets say a hand sprayer.
 

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