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John Deere Tips Notebook
- The Top 10 implements you should acquire first
- How To Adjust & Operate The Frontier LS1145 Mounted Sprayer
- How To Control Weeds
- How To Build A Self-Filling Livestock Water Tank
- How To Adjust & Operate The Frontier LS11 Series Mounted Sprayers
- How To Use A Manure Fork
- How To Use A Food Plot Seeder
- How To Remove A Tree Stump
- Which tillage tool might be right for you
- Why vertical tillage might be right for you
- How to adjust and operate the VT17 Series vertical tillage tools
- How to maintain a gravel drive using a box blade with hydraulic scarifiers
- How To Control Water Drainage In A Small Feed Lot
- How to gravel a farm road using a drawn box scraper
- How To Use A Wood Chipper
- How To Clear Debris Using A Root Grapple
- How To Plant A Food Plot
- How To Handle Large Round Bales
- How To Renovate A Pasture
- How To Gravel A Country Lane
- How to get driveway gravel out of the grass.
- How to use a wood chipper.
- Why shorten a PTO shaft?
- How to choose the right hay tedder for you.
- How to plant a wildlife food plot.
- How to maintain a one- or two-bottom plow.
- How to aerate, fertilize and over seed your lawn.
- How to use a middle buster in your garden.
- How to store off-season equipment
- How to free a tractor stuck in the mud.
- How to create a large vegetable garden with a one-bottom plow
- Time for your tractor’s spring maintenance?
- How to build a rail fence
- How to restore a pasture
- The Top 10 implements you should acquire first.
- How to use a tractor mounted rotary cutter
- How to use a PTO-driven post hole digger
- How to maintain a gravel drive
- How to use a land plane
- How to dethatch your lawn.
- How to use a box blade: The basics
- How to eliminate standing water using a subsoiler.
- How to plant a wildflower meadow
- How to use a tractor mount rotary tiller in your large vegetable garden
- How to make great garden soil.
- Frontier WR00 Series Carted Wheel Rakes
- Frontier WR31 Series High Capacity Carted Wheel Rakes.
- How to use a one-row cultivator.
- How to aerate, fertilize and over seed your lawn
- How to use a grooming mower
- How to use a one-bottom plow
- How to use a manure spreader
- How to adjust and use a rotary cutter
- How to Fill And Level A Low Spot With Gravel
- Frontier TD34 Series Hay Tedders
- How to use a subsoiler
- How to use a rotary tiller
- How to Maintain A Gravel Drive
- Frontier DM50 Series Disc Mower.
- How to use a middle buster
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John Deere Tips Notebook
- The Top 10 implements you should acquire first
- How To Adjust & Operate The Frontier LS1145 Mounted Sprayer
- How To Control Weeds
- How To Build A Self-Filling Livestock Water Tank
- How To Adjust & Operate The Frontier LS11 Series Mounted Sprayers
- How To Use A Manure Fork
- How To Use A Food Plot Seeder
- How To Remove A Tree Stump
- Which tillage tool might be right for you
- Why vertical tillage might be right for you
- How to adjust and operate the VT17 Series vertical tillage tools
- How to maintain a gravel drive using a box blade with hydraulic scarifiers
- How To Control Water Drainage In A Small Feed Lot
- How to gravel a farm road using a drawn box scraper
- How To Use A Wood Chipper
- How To Clear Debris Using A Root Grapple
- How To Plant A Food Plot
- How To Handle Large Round Bales
- How To Renovate A Pasture
- How To Gravel A Country Lane
- How to get driveway gravel out of the grass.
- How to use a wood chipper.
- Why shorten a PTO shaft?
- How to choose the right hay tedder for you.
- How to plant a wildlife food plot.
- How to maintain a one- or two-bottom plow.
- How to aerate, fertilize and over seed your lawn.
- How to use a middle buster in your garden.
- How to store off-season equipment
- How to free a tractor stuck in the mud.
- How to create a large vegetable garden with a one-bottom plow
- Time for your tractor’s spring maintenance?
- How to build a rail fence
- How to restore a pasture
- The Top 10 implements you should acquire first.
- How to use a tractor mounted rotary cutter
- How to use a PTO-driven post hole digger
- How to maintain a gravel drive
- How to use a land plane
- How to dethatch your lawn.
- How to use a box blade: The basics
- How to eliminate standing water using a subsoiler.
- How to plant a wildflower meadow
- How to use a tractor mount rotary tiller in your large vegetable garden
- How to make great garden soil.
- Frontier WR00 Series Carted Wheel Rakes
- Frontier WR31 Series High Capacity Carted Wheel Rakes.
- How to use a one-row cultivator.
- How to aerate, fertilize and over seed your lawn
- How to use a grooming mower
- How to use a one-bottom plow
- How to use a manure spreader
- How to adjust and use a rotary cutter
- How to Fill And Level A Low Spot With Gravel
- Frontier TD34 Series Hay Tedders
- How to use a subsoiler
- How to use a rotary tiller
- How to Maintain A Gravel Drive
- Frontier DM50 Series Disc Mower.
- How to use a middle buster
How To Control Weeds
How To Control Weeds
If you have pasture for livestock – or if you have any large acreage where you want healthy vegetation to flourish – then how you control weeds is very important. Because without good weed control, you’ll reduce hay and grazing quality.
In this video, we’ll take a look at the two basic ways to control weeds. Mowing and spraying. There are other pasture management practices you can also employ, but for dealing with weeds that are already there, mowing or spraying are your two best options.
Periodic mowing is a helpful practice if you’re able to cut weeds after they’ve grown above the height of the grass, but before they’ve filled out with seeds. That will help control their spread.
For this task, a rotary cutter is the ideal tool to use, like a John Deere HX15 Flex-Wing Rotary Cutter (US CA). It has a cutting width of 15 feet (4.6 m) and a cutting height from 1 – 16 inches (2.54 – 40.64 cm). It’s also a pretty big rotary cutter. So, we matched it with a John Deere 6145M Utility Tractor (US CA), which has 145 engine horsepower (108 kW).
By cutting the weeds like this before the seeds set, you’re preventing them from spreading and limiting their ability to grow and survive. However, if your pasture land is primarily used for livestock grazing, you’ll probably want the desirable vegetation, like grass, to grow more than 4-inches tall (10.2 cm). In that case, rotary cutting to control weeds will only provide a very temporary solution.
For a longer-lasting solution, spraying your pasture with an appropriate herbicide is one that stands a better chance of being successful.
In this video, we’re using a Frontier LS1130 Sprayer (US CA), along with that same John Deere 6145M Utility Tractor. This sprayer has a 30-foot (9 m) working width and a 250-gallon (946.35 L) tank. We also added 8, 104-pound (47 kg) suitcase weights to the front of our tractor for ballast, so our total tractor and implement package will be ballasted correctly.
The pasture we worked in is located in southeast Kansas, and is used for grazing cattle. It’s early spring and it’s spotted with a wide variety of undesirable weeds and small trees including Osage Orange, the producer of hedge apples. We sprayed a solution of 2,4-D herbicide mixed with water according to the package specifications for the weed species found in this pasture, while leaving the good grass we want for the cattle alone.
Since the 2,4-D won’t work on the Osage Orange that have popped up here and there in the pasture, we’ll spot spray them later with a brush killer.
If you’re unsure about what the specific weeds are on your property that you’d like to control, contact your local county extension office. They can be very helpful in identifying the various vegetation species you might be up against and your best options for controlling them.
Frontier has nearly 600 implements that are available only from your John Deere dealer, the place to go for advice and equipment.
So remember, for implements that help turn your tractor into the workhorse it was built to be, think Frontier and your John Deere dealer.
And lastly, always read the Operator’s Manual before operating any piece of equipment and follow all operating and safety instructions.
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Bay City
1402 FM 3156
Bay City, TX 77414
979-245-2711
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Beaumont
9135 College St.
Beaumont, TX 77707
409-842-1128
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East Bernard
625 N SH 60 Hwy
East Bernard, TX 77435
979-335-4887
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El Campo
25830 US 59 Rd.
El Campo, TX 77437
979-543-8363
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Liberty
2210 Hwy 90 East
Liberty, TX 77575
936-336-7226
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Victoria
9806 US Hwy 59
Victoria, TX 77905
361-578-7072
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Shiner
1012 Hwy 95 North
Shiner, TX 77984
361-594-3312
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Giddings
1309 E. Austin St.
Giddings, TX 78942
979-542-2259
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