Picloram

Now I'm haying around this area.

I'm considering using things like Tordon, but I am really concerned about the fish.

That'll kill fish.

Yep, Tordon will kill fish.

So you don't want to do that.

A lot of people talk about Roundup, but that's going to kill grass, and so you're not going to want that because then you're going to have a bunch of weeds that come back.

If, let's say this was out in a pasture, simple.

Mulberries, locusts, almost any tree out there, I'm usually talking to people about Tordon.

Sometimes we'll talk chaparral.

That's pretty decent on some tree species, but it's more for brush.

But Tordon's usually my product out in a pasture where I know I'm going to have nothing but grass production for 10 years, and I don't have any desirable plants like trees or plants.

let's say it's a broadleaf crop that I want to keep.

Okay, so Tordon, great in the grass ground.

Maybe in a roadside ditch, it's possible you could use that, but more than likely what we're talking about here and the product I would suggest using is Remedy or Remedy Ultra.

When you get hay from other areas, sometimes that happens.

Uh, he said, "I've tried Grazon, Tordon, limited success.

Can't do 2,4-D products during the growing season 'cause I grow some pumpkins.

I wonder if there's a pre that I could use with better results." So when you think about pumpkins and controlling anything in the pigweed species, it's pretty tough.

Well, yeah, it's just not great on thistles.

Tordon isn't that good.

Remedy isn't that good.

No, no, no, not Tordon.

I mean, 2,4-D isn't that good.

I want to use Tordon is what I'm trying to say.

Yeah, I misspoke there.

But anyway, yeah, so none of the products that are getting used are that good.

That'd be triclopyr as the active ingredient.

If you want lots of residual, then we're talking about Tordon or Arsenal.

That'd be Imazapyr.

And I would say this because you're probably thinking, wait a second, he just talked about high residual, but then he said treat the stumps.

How am I going to have lots of residual when I treat the stumps? Here's why.

Because think about this.

Okay, if I use Tordon, for example, what it's going to do is it's going to go all the way down through that great big root system of that tree.

And then when the tree dies, I mean, the roots die, they're going to leave just a little trace of Tordon there and that could stay there for quite a few years.