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Dealing with Grass Burs/Stickers

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I have a 5 to 7 acre tract that is literally covered with grass burrs. The place is right off the river so the soil is sandy which grass burrs love. The grass burrs are as thick and dense as Bermuda grass. Around March 1 of this year I had a the local fertilizer guy come out and put a preemergent out to prevent the stickers but it didn't really seem to slow them down.

He told me that since my place has too many trees that it was a pain to spray since he has to dodge objects with his sprayers. He told me I need to get a spray rig on my tractor and that he would sell me the chemicals to add to spray and for me to do it myself.

My eventual plan is to grow coastal and have cows. With the disappointing results of the preemergent, am I better off just putting in coastal and letting it choke out the grass burrs or should I keep spraying the chemicals to try to kill the grass burrs.

If spraying, what chemical should I be using to kill the stickers? I need to mow one more time before the fall and the grass stops growing so should I spray now before I cut or do I wait until next spring to put out another preemergent.

Property is located 1 hour southwest of Fort Worth. Thanks.
PANHANDLE10
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I'm in year 5 of a decades long battle with sandburs.
Some combination of pre-emergents, choking them out with grass, pulling them by hand, spot spraying, and praying is what my plan is.

Sandburs are hell. God put them here to remind us what hell is like.
Bradley.Kohr.II
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Not sure of the result, but dragging carpet scraps to gather some of the seeds, as was suggested previously, here, made sense to me.

We tried it this year, along with burning the plants that showed heads
JSKolache
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Two things - make sure your pre-emergent covers this weed & next year put it out a few weeks earlier.
SWCBonfire
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I'm assuming that you are talking about a few stocker calves or a horse on 5-7 acres... you need grass that will choke out the grassburs, and fertilizer to get that grass to grow.

#1 choice in terms of running small calves or horses would be Tifton 85, but it can be harder and more expensive to establish. Jiggs would be easier to establish (and the most likely bermuda to agressively grow and choke out the grassburs), but harder for young calves to digest.

Coastal does a moderate to poor job of choking out grassburs in Sandy country IMO. A mix of seeded bermudagrass might even work better, and is something you can plant with minimal equipment.
GSS
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5-7 acres can be sprayed with a UTV/ATV small boom sprayer. Pastora is currently the recommended herbicide for grass burs, works very well also as a broad spectrum weed control. But even Pastora only works on young bur plants.... if you already see the stickers, you're too late.
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TresPuertas
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PANHANDLE10 said:

I'm in year 5 of a decades long battle with sandburs.

lol wut?
PANHANDLE10
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TresPuertas said:

PANHANDLE10 said:

I'm in year 5 of what I presume will be a decades long battle with sandburs.

lol wut?


FIFM.
PANHANDLE10
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Those damn things can lay dormant on the ground for 10-15 years and then sprout a whole new batch.
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