voluteer cedars

Is there any herbicide to kill eastern red cedar seedling in pasture? Spot spraying each one with a wand?

My experience is a sharp ax and spot spry brush killer on the stump.
The other way is plant beans and keep the header low in the fall.
The spring Round Up spraying has done a good job on mine.

Tordon is labeled for cedars under 15 feet tall. Wet the foliage and if your careful you can keep from killing any grass around the cedars.

Mower

Here in the Tallgrass Flint Hills in Kansas, preferred control is fire in the spring. If that is not possible, clipping with a nipper, chain saw or axe at ground level is done. We have people making a living running skid steers equipped with clippers or tree saws clearing pastures with cedars that are too dense or big for manual methods. So long as the tree is cut off at ground level with no live branches left, no chemical on the stump is necessary. Tordon 22 and Escort XP are labeled for red Cedar control, but I don't know of anyone around here that have used them. Good luck. Control them when they are little, they are a mess.

Add Kiko meat goats to run with your cattle,they'll keep all the bushes,young trees,multiflora rose etc wiped out in your pastures.Plus meat goats are more profitable
than cattle now too.

you about have to pull them up or they come back

Here in Virginia volunteer cedar sprouts are a symptom of acid soils.

The most cost effective way to kill them is manually. You have to take all the green or they will come back. Tordon will kill them, but its not very cost effective. I have heard straight 32% nitrogen will also kill them, but never tried.
Doesn't take much of a fire to clean them up either.

GordoSD,

If you lived close, I would come dig them out. Replant them in my old gravel pit. This past fall and winter, I've removed Asian honeysuckle and relocated over 50 cedar seedlings in gravel pit. They will grow in the worst conditions, even survive a flood. Some of the cedars rescued, the county cuts when mowing, they come back. One cedar I've ran over 3 times, it comes back. The root system isn't that deep, easy to dig too. Geo

Oklahoma's version of kudzu. Nothing but a weed here. MAJOR fire hazard. Manually cutting them below the lowest growing branch seems to be the best way to get them. Local county extension service has equipment for lease for that purpose.

George, if your interested in diging up some more shoot me email

Got any cotton wood over there ? That stuff really grows in an abandoned gravel pit ! If you want some I can hook you up here in Ohio.

I've lived here 15 years and never had a problem with them. I mow this area very short with sickle mower twice each summer. But these seedling have just popped up all over. They are less than 3 inches high and about 4 inches in diameter. Like a tiny bush. I think the Robins planted them. On frequent occasions I would have several flosks of several hundred robins feeding there. Going to scare them away from now on. Also MANY robin nests in the tree grove that borders the north boundary.

I agree with nnalert cut them to ground level and the problem is solved. I am in the Flint Hills as well.

Sorry I meant to type glb.

(quoted from post at 05:56:44 03/03/16) you about have to pull them up or they come back

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Eastern Cedars will absolutely not come back if cut off.

Cut off hundreds and never seen one come back, never. Dont need to put Tordon or anything else on.

Gene

(quoted from post at 20:33:34 03/02/16) Is there any herbicide to kill eastern red cedar seedling in pasture? Spot spraying each one with a wand?

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A few hundred acres of my ground have these. More than a little annoying, and I haven't been able to keep up with them. I mow hay where I can, but they do come right back since a mower doesn't cut low enough. Countless 1000s of them around. Any I've cut off by hand don't come back, just as long as it's below the lowest branch they will die. They make good shelter belts in the right places. Between them and the 1000s of old cottonwoods, I'm about ready to remove the majority of trees on my land....

The neighbor has sprayed some in fence lines, maybe 7' tall or so and spraying from one side, they die right off. Don't know what he uses, but it would be something mentioned. I cleared probably 60 acres by hand a few years ago, they were too big for a lopper, used a chainsaw and axe, made a few big piles. I am going to do some more of that if I can get time, plus I'm probably buying a tractor loader shear (lots of people around here have them). ATV shears work with the right conditions, but I don't know many people that like them that much, and they are hard on the atv if not careful.

I don't know if a weed wiper would coat them good enough. I was thinking about that for the little ones, before grass comes up it would be easy. Much less waste than a boom sprayer for larger areas.

I used to have a school section, they said they had pellets to drop next to trees to kill them, said they worked well. I'm guessing they'd be like in this article.

http://www.noble.org/ag/wildlife/redcedar/

Example weed wipers I mentioned. http://www.smuckermfg.net/pages/weedwipers.aspx

Thanks for all the replies. I guess I will sharpen up an old adze I bought at farm auction and take the dogs for some pasture walks.