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like to get them when they’re less than head-high,” Tommy says. That removes mesquite before it robs signifi cant
moisture from the grass and before it becomes a physi- cal obstacle. It’s quicker, cheaper and easy on the grass. For several years, they’ve used the Texas A&M Brush
Busters® mix of ½ percent Reclaim® herbicide with ½ percent Remedy® Ultra herbicide in water with ¼ percent surfactant. Ingredients for a 14-gallon tankful cost them about $19, Tommy says, and they typically get 90 percent control. After any mechanical or broadcast work in a pas-
ture, the brothers try to go back in about 3 years and hand-treat any new sprouts.
Mechanical for few big trees If mesquite gets taller than 8 feet, but remains scat-
tered, the brothers turn to mechanical control. Using a D3 Caterpillar dozer with a 32-inch grubber
on the front, they grub out the bigger mesquites be- ing careful to uproot the entire bud zone so it doesn’t resprout. The method tears up some grass cover, but it’s effective. Finally, despite their best efforts, sometimes a mes-
quite population just gets away from them, the broth- ers admit. “If you don’t keep up with it, you’ll sure get behind,” Gary says. “And that’s when we’ve aerially sprayed,” Tommy
says. “It wasn’t economical for us to do mechanical.” So in 2009 and 2010, the brothers had an aerial
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applicator spray for them. They applied the standard herbicide mix at the time: a labeled tank mix of Reclaim and Remedy Ultra at 1/4 pound active ingredient each (2/3 pint Reclaim with 1/2 pint Remedy Ultra) per acre. In 7 years of research trials in the 1980s, the spray
mix of Reclaim and Remedy posted rootkills of 35 per- cent to 87 percent. The brothers believe their results were at the top end of that range. “We had about perfect conditions,” Gary says.
New herbicide trial But after their second application, Antilley Ranch
still had dense mesquite elsewhere on the ranch. So, in 2011, approached by Dow AgroSciences sales representative Ralph Porter, the brothers agreed to cooperate in an early trial of a new herbicide. Dow AgroSciences introduced the herbicide the next year as Sendero®. In July 2011, the Antillleys had 100 acres sprayed with Sendero at the labeled rate of 1.75 pints per acre.
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