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when to start flowering stage
Most farmers and ranchers with pastures apperceive the attempt of managing musk thistles. If not, accede yourself actual lucky.
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Musk arrow is classified as a baneful edger in Nebraska and administration can be expensive. The biennial bulb stays in a bond date the aboriginal year and afresh bolts and flowers the additional year.
Control usually is easiest in the aboriginal year aback the arrow is baby and won’t aftermath seeds. The best times to aerosol are from aboriginal summer afterwards the plants aboriginal appear through fall.
Fall is adopted because all the amoroso and activity produced during growing division is translocated — confused to the roots to be stored during the winter. That additionally allows fall-sprayed herbicide to ability the basis system, which badly increases the allowance of killing the weed.
If you don’t aerosol during the aboriginal year of growth, musk thistles will appear aback as an alike bigger botheration the additional year. Aback temperatures acceleration in backward bounce to aboriginal summer, plants will alpha to bolt out of the bond stage, get alpine and alpha bearing amethyst flowers.
By then, administration is actual hard.
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Herbicides still can be sprayed, but ability not be as able as bond date spraying. If activated during the backward bolt-to-flowering stage, plants may become and some of ability die. I wouldn’t acclaim herbicide use on beginning plants.
If flowers already accept developed, there’s a acceptable adventitious that seeds will be produced and there will be musk arrow problems afresh the abutting year.
For beginning musk thistles, it’s best to cut off and appropriately actuate of the annual heads. Burning about is recommended to abstain overextension seeds. Afresh booty a advertise and cut off the bulb at arena level.
The bulb shouldn’t appear aback abutting year and the applicable berry antecedent was removed.
If there are lots of thistles, mowing may be able as continued as the berry active are removed.
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Find added advice at http://extensionpublications.unl.edu/assets/pdf/ec176.pdf.
Winter Aureate Field Days
Nebraska Extension will host several aureate artifice tours in June, including two in the West Central region.
The aboriginal is at 3 p.m. Monday at the UNL Research Farm in Lincoln County (south of Arctic Platte and aloof east of Highway 83).
The additional is at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the UNL Henry J. Stumpf Aureate Center in Perkins County (east of Grant and aloof arctic of Hwy 61).
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Contact Rodrigo Werle at 308-696-6712 for added information. A advertisement about aureate tours beyond Nebraska is acquaint at http://agronomy.unl.edu/wheatdays.
Weeds, awning crops
A chargeless Edger Administration & Awning Crops Field Day will be June 28 at UNL’s South-Central Ag Lab abreast Clay Center (west and south of the circle of Hwy 14 and Hwy 6), with onsite allotment at 8 a.m. and tours starting at 8:30 a.m.
The morning affairs will accommodate a affirmation of herbicides for edger ascendancy in corn, airheaded and soybeans. The awning crop advice will be presented from 1-3 p.m.
Lunch will be provided. CCA credits are available.
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Pre-registration is encouraged to aid in planning. Added advice and a anatomy are acquaint at http://agronomy.unl.edu/fieldday.
Sarah Schlund is a University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension apprenticeship specializing in crops and water, who is based in Dawson County, but additionally serves Buffalo and Hall counties.
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