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Plateau

I have to comment on the Plateau issue.  Is it too good to be true?
It is true and we better start learning how to use this new and very
valuable tool for establishing native warm season grasses.  There are
limitations of course!  It does suppress Switchgrass; sometimes that
is good though.  Plateau is a growth inhibitor basically, if you want
to suppress tall fescue you use very low rates; if you want to kill it
you use the higher rates.  At lower rates, many wildflowers are
resistant.  One list I have from ERS in MO includes the following
species:  Blackeyed susan, Illinois bundleflower, partridge pea,
purple coneflower, cosmos, red mexican hat, red corn poppy, upright
coneflower, thickspike gayflower, corn poppy, purple prairie clover,
dwarf red coreopsis, plains coreopsis, lance leaf coreopsis,  clasping
coneflower, yellow cosmos, shasta daisy and perennial lupine.  I
personally have had luck spraying over established annual lespedeza,
roundhead, slenderhead and unfortunately serecia lespedeza at low
rates.  I personally will not put rates on an open list, sorry.  Talk
to your local representative for Plateau.

The bottom line is, with everything else good and constant, Plateau
cuts establishment time of WSG's in half and can help establish WSG's
with nice forb stands in the process.

--
Victor R. Shelton
                               --
          "What this country really needs is dirtier
                fingernails and cleaner minds"
                                           Will Rogers
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