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Cheat grass

Big Muddy rancher

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I was looking at a piece of ground that's covered with Cheat Grass along with other weeds. It's been continuous cropped for years without any inputs but it is pretty good soil and could make a good hay field.

Any ideas on what to use to clean it up and how you would go about it?
 

burnt

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Big Muddy rancher said:
I was looking at a piece of ground that's covered with Cheat Grass along with other weeds. It's been continuous cropped for years without any inputs but it is pretty good soil and could make a good hay field.

Any ideas on what to use to clean it up and how you would go about it?

A plow would work . . .








:lol: :lol: :lol:
 

Big Muddy rancher

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burnt said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
I was looking at a piece of ground that's covered with Cheat Grass along with other weeds. It's been continuous cropped for years without any inputs but it is pretty good soil and could make a good hay field.

Any ideas on what to use to clean it up and how you would go about it?

A plow would work . . .








:lol: :lol: :lol:



:gag: :cowboy:
 

littlejoe

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Big Muddy rancher said:
I was looking at a piece of ground that's covered with Cheat Grass along with other weeds. It's been continuous cropped for years without any inputs but it is pretty good soil and could make a good hay field.

Any ideas on what to use to clean it up and how you would go about it?

it's a winter annual, the seeds have a fairly short viable life. In this country, typically, it gained ground in winter wheat and was cleaned up by going to spring wheat.

Properly located, it's about the finest spring pasture you can find---nuke it, never let it get ahead of the cows.

Ripe, it's almost explosively flammable.
 

gcreekrch

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An RFP tip....... manage for what you want not for what you don't want. :wink:


Your heifers are on cheat grass, you cheated and turned out before me. :p
 

Nicky

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We have alot of it here, and it is great spring feed. Bad after it gets the seed heads though. Roundup is the cheapest way to get rid of it, doesn't need to high of a dose of it. When you replant you might you to use Plateau as a preemergent to keep it from coming back.
 

Big Muddy rancher

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Nicky said:
We have alot of it here, and it is great spring feed. Bad after it gets the seed heads though. Roundup is the cheapest way to get rid of it, doesn't need to high of a dose of it. When you replant you might you to use Plateau as a preemergent to keep it from coming back.

Thanks Nicky and little joe, Voices of reason :D

The rest are just voices in my head. :roll: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

efb

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Cheatgrass is a common name for downy brome or japanese chess. It's not a very good grass. Comes on very early don't last long. It's an invader and a bad one. We did a lot of research work about 35 years ago in Montana controling it with atrazine. Low rates of atrazine will control it in pasture situations, but was never labeled. The ph of some of those soils is over 8 which can result in damage to your good grasses.
 
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