Spraying the Fence Line Follow Up: After 1 & 2 Years (Y2E23) 

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Thanks for the comment and feedback on the results; I miss South Texas (Brownsville) and need to visit soon!

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Thanks for the comment and we really like the effectiveness of RM43 too. Temps are warming up here and we should be doing our 3rd/year application soon; always fighting time and mother nature!

Did u use it straight or mix it with water

@@thomasdace1154 It is about 6oz per gallon for "spot" treatment but I use that strength for everywhere I use it. Otherwise it says you can use a 7.5oz to 1-10 gallons of water per 1000 sq ft.

Thanks for the comment Joe and you're right, everything is getting more expensive. After we sprayed, it took about a week or so before we really saw results.

You mention @10:30 that you bought a 2.5 gallon bottle for around $120.00 , where did you purchase it?@@part-timeweekendrancher2983

Too freaking much and we haven't finished. We are about to start on the other side; another 3/4 of a mile.

Thanks for the suggestion and might give it a try next year (especially if prices stay as high as they are)!

So if I was to mix two gallons of water I will need to add about 6 Oz of RM43

I've been using 1.25 gallons (~160 oz) of RM43 per the 45 gallon sprayer so that equals about 3.5 oz of RM43 per gallon.

Was cheaper before. Now it's super expensive thanks to the Biden Cartel.

I know this is old but just for future people reading this RM43 has a pre emergent in it( Imazapyr) . It keeps things from coming back up for up to a year . It's not just glyphosate . 2.5 gallons of glyphosate Round pro can be had for 90.00 on amazon . RM43 is 160.00 for 2.5 gallons .

Yes, it's expensive!!! I was able to recently purchase 4 2.5 gals from Home Depot for $151.19 each (the cheapest I've seen in years). From the company's website, it states that you can apply it to "bare ground" and the product has two active herbicides "glyphosate to kill the weeds and imazapyr to prevent new growth". I have sprayed it on spots of dirt/bare ground along the fence line and nothing grew in this year for some months. Yet I haven't used it over a larger dirt/bare ground area. Personally, I know it's expensive but it requires one application for the year versus bi-monthly weed whacking of the fence line; I just don't have time to manage this extra work/time. Let me (us) what way you go and best of luck.

William, we are using a John Deere 45 Gallon Gator Poly Bed Sprayer (Item #LP20852). It comes with both a 43-inch boom that sprays a 10-foot swath (which we haven't used) and a 19 foot hand wand hose (which we have used). It was pretty easy to hook up to the gator's battery and all the accessory wiring harness came with it.

Fred, I’m a native Texan too (originally from Brownsville) and you ask a heck of a question. Information from the manufacture’s (Ragan & Massey) label/website states that application of RM43 kills vegetation for a year and may need to be reapplied 6-8 months depending on rainfall. I would say that this product isn’t a “true sterilizer” and in my past few applications of our fence line, vegetation always comes back yet not as pervasive in previously treated areas. I think if you spray it to kill the weeds/stickers this year and then let the ground rest for 8-12 months with no reapplication and mix in some inches of top soil, it should be fine to plant grass and a few trees. This is my opinion and I haven’t tried this but it seems reasonable; if you proceed, please leave a comment with the results because I’m sure others would like to know.

Just RM43 and water (we use it straight).

@@part-timeweekendrancher2983 thanks

No joke and the price keeps going up and up every year.

Nope; according to the directions, once dried, it is safe to walk on. I also do not spray the fence lines where the cows are just incase they get spray drift.

Interesting, I've heard about using dish soap and vinegar, even using diesel fuel, but hadn't heard about salt. We'll have to try that. Do you have to reply after so many weeks/months?

The herbicide we are using is RM43 Total Vegetation Control made by Ragan & Massey and we are mixing 3.5 oz of this concentrate with 1 gallon of water. We are using a 45 gallon sprayer so we are mixing 1.25 gallons (~160 oz) of RM43 concentrate in the sprayer. Hope this helps and thanks for watching!

Thank you.