Here in the prime agricultural region of Weld County, Colorado, we don't mess around with "organic" herbicides. When we got weeds to kill we "burn" 'em with the most advanced chemical broadleaf plant poisons we can find. In our case it was 'Clarity' and 'Amine 2-4D' to kill a motley crew of weeds that compete with my forage grasses for water, sunlight and soil nutrients, and that are objectionable to our horses for a number of reasons. Although the weed population is relatively high now, once they are brought under control and the grass gets healthier and more dense, the grass will naturally choke out the weeds on its own.
Click on "continue reading..." to see a picture of the awesome machine that applied these miracle chemicals to our 20 acre hay field in less than half an hour.
This is the RoGator 854 post-emerge sprayer. It has twin hydraulically positioned boom arms with folding tips that cover a spraying path 80 feet wide! It has hydrostatic drive (no gears and driveshafts) and a 200 HP, 600 lb.-ft. 6-cylinder Cummins turbo diesel engine. It can cover croplands at up to 32 mph.
Those darker green plants you can see just ahead of the RoGator are weeds. There is also bindweed that stays close to the ground where you can't see it that's getting fried here as well. After the application was finished I told the driver, "I can almost hear those weeds dyin'!" I was very happy that I live in the richest and most advanced country in the world, where I can kill 20 acres of weeds with a phone call and a personal check.
Posted by JohnGalt at July 14, 2003 02:55 PM