Mesquite management has all the time been extra than simply herbicide choice. For profitable mesquite management, land managers additionally should observe a posh mixture of environmental elements to find out optimum timing.
“Some leaf circumstances can’t be seen by the bare eye, and it’s onerous to trace and examine rising circumstances throughout a number of years, however we will try this with LandVisor,” says Benny Martinez, market growth specialist, Corteva Agriscience.
LandVisor® superior brush administration helps producers determine the place and when spraying will ship the most effective return — and the place it received’t.
Earlier than LandVisor, producers had been completely depending on visible indicators to guess what was happening within the plant. It was the one technique to decide the plant’s skill to soak up and translocate herbicide.
“With the expertise and perception we accumulate by way of LandVisor, we will higher calculate instances to use brush management, in addition to when to not apply these measures,” Martinez says. “And with LandVisor maps, your entire panorama is seen, enabling evaluation of the overall mesquite group, as a substitute of some selective vegetation.”
KNOW BEFORE THE SPRAY
Ok.C. Windham says he obtained a unique image of his Clyde, Texas, ranch when he enrolled in LandVisor® superior brush administration.
“With this program, you don’t must guess,” he says.
The ranch has been in his household for 4 generations. Windham has seen all of it from horseback since he was large enough to experience, however LandVisor offered a extra detailed, interactive picture.
Mesquite is notoriously troublesome to kill,” Windham says. “If you must price range for brush management, this expertise actually helps you out.”
A vital aspect in profitable management is timing the spray software when mesquite is most vulnerable. LandVisor displays the well being of the mesquite foliage, plant progress stage and different environmental elements. That info determines when the mesquite is able to spray.
Greater, more-consistent management
As Martinez explains, counting on LandVisor helps take the guesswork out of software 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 degree of rootkill immediately correlates to longevity of management.”
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