Herbicide Trial

Golf course superintendents are always trying to find chemicals that work and might make your job easier at the same time.  It seems like everytime you turn around there is a new product coming out that might just do that.  A couple of weeks ago our BWI sales representative came to me and asked if I would like to take part in a trial for a new herbicide.  I agreed and he gave me a couple of acres of the product to try out and see what happens.  The product is called SureGuard.  It has pre and post emergent activity, meaning that it will prevent weeds from coming up and also kill some of the weeds that are already there. We sprayed it at a rate of 10.8oz/Acre which is right in the middle of the 8 to 12oz/Acre rate.  With a lot of the pre-emergents out there, you have to add Roundup or a 2, 4-D product to get any weeds that have already established themselves.  With this product, you might not have to do that.  We treated a couple of areas at our old driving range area between #9 and #10.  These areas have been marked with orange flags so please leave them if you see them.  We will be checking this area often, taking pictures, monitoring the weather, etc. to see what is going on and what kind of control we are getting.  I will post some pictures once the product has time to work.