Section 6 Table of Contents

Table 2.6-6. Harvesting, feeding, and/or grazing restrictions for forage herbicides.

Table 2.6-6. Harvesting, feeding, and/or grazing restrictions for forage herbicides.
Herbicide Type Length Comments
Buctril (bromoxynil) Grazing or harvest 30 days After spring application
60 days After fall or winter application
Butyrac (2,4-DB) Grazing or feeding 60 days Seedling alfalfa
30 days Establishe alfalfa
Chateau (flumioxazin) Grazing or harvest 25 days Established alfalfa; less than 6" of regrowth
Gramoxone Inteon (paraquat) Grazing 42 days Fall or spring dormant application.
Grazing or harvest 30 days Between-cutting application
Kerb (pronamide) Grazing or harvest 120 days Fall or dormant application
MCPA Forage or grazing 7 days Do not forage or graze meat animals within 7 days or slaughter or dairy animals within 7 days of treatment.
Poast Plus/Poast (sethoxydim) Forage (grazing) 7/20 days On the label, forage refers to green, undried alfalfa. Poast has 20-day restriction for clover hay only.
Hay (harvest) 14/20 days Hay is dried alfalfa. Poast has 20-day restriction for clover hay only.
Prowl H2O (pendimethalin) Forage or hay harvest 50 days Apply before 6 inches of alfalfa regrowth.
Pursuit (imazethapyr) Feeding, grazing, or harvest 30 days Be cautious of rotational crop restrictions.
Raptor (imazamox) Feeding, grazing, or harvest 20 days —
Roundup/glyphosate and Touchdown Grazing or harvest (preplant) 0 days The crop may be grazed or cut for hay immediately following preplant application.
RR alfalfa only 5 days In RR alfalfa varieties, apply glyphosate up to 5 days before cutting.
Grazing or harvest (spot treatment) 3–14 days Spot treatment application depends on glyphosate product used.
Select (clethodim) Feeding, grazing, or harvest 15 days Increases with 2,4-DB (60 days).
Sencor (metribuzin) Grazing or harvest 28 days 60 days
Dormant application spring application after growth resumes. Apply only when impregnated on dry fertilizer.
Velpar (hexazinone) Grazing or feeding 30 days Plant only corn for 12 months following application or Velpar.