We just lost about 30ac of Tifton to grasshoppers. What can you do? It was up ready to bale. A week later its just stems.
Brute 23":2wmp1p78 said:We are getting all kinds of conflicting stuff on how to handle them. If its not drought... its hogs... or apparently grasshoppers. Where is that Would you reccomend... thread.
BC":22mm0df0 said:I used 3 oz of lambda-cy and 1 oz of Dimilin per acre along with my herbicide when the hoppers were little. No grazing restrictions. The secret is to spray before they get big. Once they get some size, the grasshoppers can eat a good bit of forage. 8 grasshoppers per sq. yard justifies treatment.
Here is a label for lambda: http://forages.tamu.edu/PDF/Lambda-Cy.pdf
Lambda has no grazing restrictions, sevin does. Lambda is cheaper per acre.papavillars":2cxb90nd said:I have always used seven dust wettable.