Mesquite management has at all times been extra than simply herbicide choice. For profitable mesquite management, land managers additionally should monitor a posh mixture of environmental components to find out optimum timing.
“Some leaf situations can’t be seen by the bare eye, and it’s exhausting to trace and examine rising situations throughout a number of years, however we will do this with LandVisor,” says Benny Martinez, market growth specialist, Corteva Agriscience.
LandVisor® superior brush administration helps producers work out the place and when spraying will ship one of the best return — and the place it received’t.
Earlier than LandVisor, producers have been completely depending on visible indicators to guess what was occurring within the plant. It was the one strategy to decide the plant’s capability to soak up and translocate herbicide.
“With the know-how and perception we accumulate by way of LandVisor, we will higher calculate occasions to use brush management, in addition to when to not apply these measures,” Martinez says. “And with LandVisor maps, the complete panorama is seen, enabling evaluation of the entire mesquite group, as an alternative of some selective vegetation.”
Know earlier than the spray
Ok.C. Windham says he received a special image of his Clyde, Texas, ranch when he enrolled in LandVisor® superior brush administration.
“With this program, you don’t need to guess,” he says.
The ranch has been in his household for 4 generations. Windham has seen all of it from horseback since he was sufficiently big to journey, however LandVisor offered a extra detailed, interactive picture.
“Mesquite is notoriously tough to kill,” Windham says. “If it’s important to finances for brush management, this know-how actually helps you out.”
A vital ingredient in profitable management is timing the spray utility when mesquite is most vulnerable. LandVisor displays the well being of the mesquite foliage, plant development stage and different environmental components. That info determines when the mesquite is able to spray.
Larger, more-consistent management
As Martinez explains, counting on LandVisor helps take the guesswork out of utility timing. Making functions inside prescription parameters for LandVisor® superior brush administration considerably improves the extent of mortality.
“Information collected over a four-year interval reveals LandVisor not solely facilitates a rise in mesquite mortality but in addition will increase consistency of rootkill when suggestions are adopted,” Martinez says. “And stage of rootkill immediately correlates to longevity of management.”
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