An early rise morning to get some things done on the farm.  The morning air was crisp at about 65 degrees with lots of dew.  It sure was a reminder that Fall is just around the corner, however you won’t know it as this afternoon the high is expected to be 95 degrees!  That is hot folks!

So a quick little two hour ride around one of the fields to test out a theory about weed spraying.  You see we have a bit of a problem with a weed we call Indian Tobacco, however when you look it up on the world wide web it comes up with pictures of something totally different.  This is what we have:

In no way is this a picture from our farm, but of a field out south and west of the South Marina of Willard Bay.  By spraying we are trying to avoid our fields looking like this.  How about this picture of the field next to the one I just showed you.

If someone can tell me of a good use for this sort of weed, I would like to know it.

Our theory on spraying these this time of year is that when we usually spray it in the spring time, a lot of it hasn’t come out of dormancy yet and so we still have some in the hay.  This year we decided that after the hay was cut and we had watered and allowed the grass to grow about 6 inches, we would spray at that time to try and catch all the new growth of the Indian Tobacco.  As I sprayed this morning the growth of this weed looked perfect and the spray should have plenty of warm temps left to get to the root of the problem and kill it all off.  We won’t know for sure until next Spring.

Wish us luck!

Bears Butt

August 2, 2013