Keeping weeds out of the way of your pasture production during the summer months delivers the benefits you need to maximize your lowest-cost feed source — your grass.
No matter how you put it to work on your ranch, you can’t go wrong growing more grass. Consider the options and bottom-line benefits that healthy, productive pastures present:
Unless marred by drought, summer can be a valuable time to target many troublesome broadleaf weeds, along with other later-emerging ones, such as ragweed, pigweed and goldenrod.
Target rangeland threats such as houndstongue, ironweed, common tansy, hawkweeds and knapweeds when they are emerged and actively growing to ensure maximum herbicide uptake and root translocation. The same goes for tough pasture weeds, including Canada thistle, pigweed and cocklebur.
As a rule, make DuraCor® herbicide your first choice for most situations. DuraCor controls more than 140 broadleaf weeds at multiple growth stages. You get preemergence and postemergence control — soil residual activity to stop new flushes of weeds for weeks after application — giving you longer-lasting control than either 2,4-D or dicamba.
If a nonresidual option better meets your needs, choose PastureGard® HL herbicide. In addition to providing the best control of sericea lespedeza available, PastureGard HL controls many other weeds and woody plants.
Summer Recommendations for Rangeland and Pasture Weeds |
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| Product | Target Species/Application Rates |
| DuraCor® herbicide The most extensive pasture weed control available |
12 fluid ounces per acre Biennial thistles (musk, bull, plumeless), chickory, common cocklebur, curlycup gumweed, horsenettle, ironweed (tall and western), spiny amaranth (treat before flowering), western ragweed |
| 16 fluid ounces per acre Pigweed (redroot and smooth, knapweed, yellow starthisle) |
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| 20 fluid ounces per acre Canada thistle, common mullein, goldenrod, hawkweed (yellow and orange), knapweed (diffuse, Russian) |
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| PastureGard® HL herbicide Broad-spectrum, nonresidual brush and broadleaf control in a single product. |
12 fluid ounces per acre Sericea lespedeza (Apply after maximum foliage development, when plants are 12 to 15 inches tall prior to bloom; increase the rate to 1.5 pints per acre for dense stands or later stages of growth.) |
| DuraCor® herbicide + PastureGard® HL herbicide |
16 fluid ounces + 16 fluid ounces per acre Blackberry |
| DuraCor® herbicide + Remedy® Ultra herbicide | 16 fluid ounces + 16-32 fluid ounces per acre Multiflora rose, black locust, honeylocust, hedge (osage orange, bois d'arc) |
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