If you have used this stuff, can you help me understand how to prepare it? The label is like reading greek. I want to specifically kill (or lessen) the clover. How much of this stuff do I use per water and it mentions some kind of oil concentrate or nonionic sufactant. What the heck is that and how much do I need.
I'm not sure what the label says, I use Pasture Pro but I did find this online:
•Spray on actively growing weeds.
(See chart for specific rates.)
•Add 2 to 4 pints of 80 percent
non-ionic surfactant or 1 to
2 gallons of crop oil concentrate
per 100 gallons of water.
•Use the higher rates of
Cimarron® Plus for heavy infestations
and/or larger weed sizes.
A non-ionic surfactant is a "wetting agent" which reduces the surface tension of water, allowing it to soak into soil more easily. Typically they are used to help fertilize or provide water to plants in hydrophobic soil.
Diamond K Soil Wetting Agent is a good example. If you search for wetting agents you'll find a bunch more.
Crop oil concentrate is a liquid designed to apply a product (like your herbicide) to a crop (in your case, pasture). It may or may not have an oil base, it is concentrated which is why you add water. Often you find crop oil concentrates that include surfactants.
So, you'd have your Cimarron herbicide + the wetting agent to help it soak in plus the crop oil concentrate to hold it together with the water.