Water Hemp and RoundUp Control - Wessington, SD

This is a story about Joe F. in Wessington, South Dakota. 

Joe had over 2,000 acres of crop land he was unable to spray, fertilize or even plant due to a few tough years of local flooding. The result... water hemp - waist high. Joe was besides himself looking for any means of resolution. He contacted his local agronomist, and to no avail, was basically told he was "S.O.L". 

Joe reached out to owner and dealer, Todd Hakl, and asked if he knew of anything that could help. Todd told him point blank, "if you use 6 ounces of Poseidon with generic RoundUp and your AMS, we can make RoundUp work like it did when it first came out on the market." 

You see, many people believe that RoundUp simply just doesn't work anymore, and that just isn't the case. What needs to be done is the surface tension needs to be broken up so the product is absorbed into the veins of the plant. RoundUp is a root killer and can be extremely effective.

We know, for example, the surface tension to be a baseline of 75. By putting water on the leaf, at the one quart per 100 gallon, which will modify the surface tension to a rating of just over 30. We have found over the course of testing, to make RoundUp have the best results and effectiveness that the best solution is 2 quarts per 100 gallons of finished spray product. 

Also, and we can't say this loudly enough... you should never go over 10 gallons of RoundUp per acre.

So let's get back to Joe's story.

After going over this information with him, he was willing to try anything. A little fact on just how out of control this water hemp had gotten: at the end of each row, Joe would have to get out of the machine and clear the booms of hung up water hemp. He mixed up the solution as directed by Todd, over all 2,000 acres of water hemp.  Within 72 hours, the water hemp was laying flat on the ground. 

Over the years, Todd has heard the saying many times, "yeah - you can make a weed sick. But can you kill it?" Well, after just 10 days - Joe had done it. 

Joe went to his neighbor's and sprayed two separate quarter sections for a neighbor who had planted soybeans, using the same rate as suggested to him by Todd. He was also struggling with water hemp taking over. The neighbor was thrilled with the results, stated he had perfect control over his RoundUp ready beans, and had some of the best yields ever.