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BY KENNER LOVE
Extension Agent, ANR
Crop & Soil Sciences
As temperatures cool down, rainfall arrives, and forage grasses and legumes start growing this fall, it will be easier to see how badly the droughts have thinned stands. It will be too late to reseed this fall, but by making preparations this fall, late winterearly spring seedings can be made which will increase productivity of the stands next season.
If perennial broadleaf weeds are present, an application of 2, 4-D and/or Banvel needs to be applied as soon as possible while they are actively growing. In some instances, where there is a 50-75 percent stand of desirable plants still present in the stand, this herbicide application plus close grazing this winter will be adequate preparation for overseeding into the thinned sod next March. Keep in mind that the annual weedy grasses such as crabgrass and foxtail will be killed by frost, making herbicides unnecessary.
If the stand has less than 50 percent stand of desirable grasses with considerable perennial broadleaf weeds, a 2, 4-D Banvel applied immediately is again a sound practice. If perennial weedy grasses are present or if a change in composition of the sod is desired (e.g. from tall fescue to orchard grass).
Graze or harvest the old sod this fall so there is three to four inches of leafy growth present in late
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