Hey all, my brother and I are planting up a little .3 acre food plot. We're using whitetail clover. Well according to the website you're supposed to spray with slay and arrest herbicide. However, this stuff is stupid expensive. Anyone know of anything that can be a substitute without spending $200.
I use a product called Mad Dog Plus. I buy it at my local co-op store and it works as good as anything I have used in the past. The price for 2 1/2 gallon concentrate is $36. It takes a few days to start working but it does the job.
It will kill anything that you spray it on. It has a booklet that comes with it that tells you the concentration to mix for what you are trying to kill or not kill.
I'll be 100% honest. We only do small food plots compared to almost anyone and due to our area they're always in the woods. While most companies list salty sprays on their sites good old potent Round-Up mix will kill pretty much anything if done without rain. -We typically rake back everything we can (trimming any thorns or trees we want out) -spray one liberal dose of Round-Up or equivalent. -let set for 4-7 days -spray a second time as the dormant seeds now germinate with the first wave being killed and freeing up room for them to pop -we then till or rake throughly -Fertilize/lime as needed -seed -fertilize again about a month prior to season to sweeten it up. (if spring planting it will get tilled under and re-seeded with a fall planting.) Honestly, I think there are times where some seed companies recommend certain brands simply out of a business relationship. Now this is all situational to what is growing in your plot area, but we've never used anything more than round up for every single plot we've ever put in+elbow grease....be amazed at how much you can save.
I apologize for not being more clear guys. This is for after the clover is up and growing. As far as a "pre-killer", rural king has some stuff called drexel and it is just like roundup, except way cheaper.
haha...okay I got ya. We've never had enough of a problem with too much stuff growing up into our clover to have to treat it. Good luck out there though!
Glyphosphate is what we used last year instead of Roundup., Way cheaper and worked great. Broad leaf we used Gordans Amine 400, grasses was another Gordans product but I don't remeber the name. Pretty cheap and they did work very well.
i use poast to clean up grasses in my clover, i havent had much of a broadleaf problem, but if you do, light doses of roundup will do the trick....it is actually hard to kill clover with roundup unless you spray it heavy. the clover may turn slightly yellow for a week or so, but it will come right back.
A little bit questioning your math, from Whitetail Institute Arrest sells in a pint container that does 1/4 acre at $27.99. That would be a far cry from $200.00. I'm sure if you shopped elsewhere or ordered a larger container of it and used it through the next few years you'd get an even better deal. Maybe I'm reading this wrong, not sure.
According to the website it takes 2 different products, each of those being roughly $28 a piece. Also, we have 3/10 of an acre which is slightly larger than 1/4, so to play it safe you may want to buy more than what you need. Though $56 is a far cry from $200, that is only to do it once. If you do it twice that's $112. I get it that it's not stupid crazy expensive but still quite a bit for chemicals and typically you can find stuff like this at local farm places cheaper.
