Yellow Nutsedge best herbicide for ?

I mow and deal with it in my clover Its a pain.
I can get rid of it with Beans/corn and roundup. But it comes back.
 
sorry forgot to include that.. in a clover chicory plot...and pure clover plots

Never tried Basagran on chicory, but the label should tell you. It absolutely killed the sedge in my white clover mix. It’s spendy, but it did the job. I was lucky enough to not have much so I spot sprayed it.
 
Thunder is supposed to work and it get a lot of stuff including fleabane and is safe in clover. But pricey, $319 / gallon and good for 20 acres, so about $16 an acre. Sledgehammer is about $80/acre and only gets nutsedge. I'm looking for 3 locals to share a gallon of Thunder.
 
Daniels Farm Store Leola PA, $197 a gallon, get them to ship it UPS. (717) 656-6982
Grasses and weeds controlled or suppressed by Thunder Herbicide, see label for specific information:
  • Alligator weed
  • Anoda, spurred
  • Artichoke, Jerusalem
  • Barnyardgrass
  • Bedstraw, catchweed
  • Beets, wild
  • Bluegrass, annual
  • Bristly starbur
  • Buckwheat, wild
  • Buffalobur
  • Canarygrass, littleseed
  • Carpetweed
  • Chickweed, mouseear
  • Cocklebur, common
  • Common ragweed,
  • Crabgrass, Large
  • Crabgrass, Smooth
  • Cress, hoary
  • Crowfootgrass
  • Cupgrass, robust purple
  • Cupgrass, robust white
  • Cupgrass, woolly
  • Dandelion
  • Devilsclaw
  • Dock, broadleaf (seedling)
  • Dock, curly (seedling)
  • Dodder
  • Fiddleneck
  • Filaree, redstem
  • Filaree, whitestem
  • Fleabane, rough
  • Flixweed
  • Foxtail, Giant
  • Foxtail, Green
  • Foxtail, Yellow
  • Galinsoga
  • Giant ragweed
  • Goosefoot, nettleleaf
  • Goosegrass
  • Grounsel, common
  • Henbit
  • Jimsonweed
  • Johnsongrass, Rhizome and Seedling
  • Junglerice
  • Knotweed, prostrate
  • Kochia (non-ALS resistant)
  • Lambsquarter, common
  • Lettuce, miners
  • Mallow, Venice
  • Mallow, little
  • Marshelder
  • Millet, wild proso
  • Morningglory, entireleaf
  • Morningglory, ivyleaf
  • Morningglory, pitted
  • Morningglory, smallflower
  • Morningglory, tall
  • Mustard sp
  • Mustard, wild
  • Mustards, tumble
  • Nettle, burning
  • Nightshade Eastern black
  • Nightshade hairy
  • Nightshade, black
  • Nutsedge, purple
  • Nutsedge, yellow
  • Oats, wild
  • Oxtongue, bristly
  • Panicum, Fall
  • Panicum, Texas
  • Pennycress, field
  • Pepperweed, Virginia
  • Pepperweed, field
  • Pigweed, redroot
  • Pigweed, smooth
  • Pigweed, spiny
  • Poinsettia, wild
  • Puncturevine
  • Purslane, common
  • Pusley, Florida
  • Quackgrass
  • Radish, wild
  • Ragweed, common
  • Red rice
  • Rocket, London
  • Rocket, Yellow
  • Rockpurslane, desert
  • Sage, barnyard
  • Sandbur, field
  • Shattercane
  • Shepherd's purse
  • Sida, prickly (teaweed)
  • Signalgrass, broadleaf
  • Smartweed swamp (seedling)
  • Smartweed, Pennsylvania
  • Smartweed, ladysthumb
  • Sorghum, almum
  • Sprangletop, Red
  • Spurge, petty
  • Spurge, prostrate
  • Spurge, spotted
  • Spurge, toothed
  • Spurry, corn
  • Swinecress
  • Tansy mustard, pinnate
  • Thistle, Canada
  • Thistle, Russian
  • Velvetleaf
  • Volunteer Corn
  • Volunteer barley
  • Volunteer oats
  • Volunteer wheat
  • Wartcress, creeping
  • Watercress
  • Waterhemp, common
  • Waterhemp, tall
  • Wild Proso Millet
  • Wild oats
  • Willow weed, panicle
  • Witchgrass
 
Thunder is supposed to work and it get a lot of stuff including fleabane and is safe in clover. But pricey, $319 / gallon and good for 20 acres, so about $16 an acre. Sledgehammer is about $80/acre and only gets nutsedge. I'm looking for 3 locals to share a gallon of Thunder.
128 oz per gallon, 4 oz per acre= 32 acres@ $197 (plus shipping if you don't get by the store) comes to $6.16 per acre.
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That is a great price, Keystone has it a +$300. Now...... how does it work???? How and when did you apply? Have you used it enough to know if it kills Yellow nut grass or just sets it back? Guy I talked to at Keystone said you might have to apply a second time. Please let us know you findings.

Bill
 
That is a great price, Keystone has it a +$300. Now...... how does it work???? How and when did you apply? Have you used it enough to know if it kills Yellow nut grass or just sets it back? Guy I talked to at Keystone said you might have to apply a second time. Please let us know you findings.

Bill
I've written extensively about Thunder elsewhere on this site, however, I'll recap some for you. Thunder herbicide can be used for legumes throughout the growing season, but I've had my best successes in early to midsummer. I don't usually spray much past labor day in the fall with any type of herbicide, and although I sprayed in the dry season in late July this year with OK results, spraying in a drought when weeds are dormant won't work. My best results are from spraying early May to midJune. What I classify as great results is when there's nothing left but chicory and clover. The label calls for 3-6 oz per acre, I usually do 4 oz per acre (6 oz. max. per yr) Also use 16 oz surfactant per 25 gallons of water, and also add 64 oz of ammonium sulfate (AMS) per 25 gallons of water to the tank mix. Either spray when the weeds are 3"-6" high, or mow the field and spray right after mowing. No need to hit the weed leaves with Thunder, it goes into the soil and kills them as they try to grow after mowing. Spraying tall clover and weeds works, but much slower, and might not have a clean kill. Carryover; wait 4 months to plant small grain, 8 months to plant corn, 18 months for brassica, 24 months for potatoes. I'd only use this stuff on permanent clover plots.
Thunder has given me picture perfect ladino clover plots that probably would have won a prize at the county fair, I also use clethodim and 2,4-DB sometimes just to get away from always using the same herbicide, but the results are usually not quite as good as Thunder.
 
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Thank you very much, I'll do a search for your posts. Did Thunder eradicate the nutsedge or does it come back in a year or two?

Thank you,

Bill
 
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