Category: Jeff Fellers

Imazapyr is a common herbicide used in forestry primarily for pine management. It is a non-selective systemic herbicide that targets grasses, broadleaf weeds, vines, brambles, shrubs, and trees (especially hardwoods). There are several plants that are resistant to imazapyr. They include elms, woody legumes, wax myrtle, croton, blackberry, buckeye, eastern Baccharis, and pine. Hence, we […]

Take just a short drive down the road or interstate, and I bet you will have a good chance of seeing tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima). Over the last few years, I have really started to notice this tree along the sides of roads. I have also made numerous landowner visits where I have seen it on […]

Herbicides are an invaluable tool in forest management for controlling undesirable vegetation. To use them safely and effectively, one must understand a few basic principles. This article is the first in a series of articles on herbicides for forestry applications. To start, we will look at the basic principles one must understand to utilize herbicides. […]

In Extension, we often get calls about why someone’s food plot is not growing as expected. While there can be a host of reasons why this is the case, the first thing one should examine is the soil pH and soil fertility. If the soil pH is not at the correct level, nutrients can be bound […]

Take just a short drive down the road or interstate, and I bet you will have a good chance of seeing Tree-of-Heaven. In the last few years, I have really started to notice this tree along the sides of roads. I have also made numerous landowner visits where I have seen it on their property. […]

Though the first cell phone was released in the early 1990s, most of us probably did not go out and buy one right away. The majority of us probably did not get a smartphone until the early 2000s. It was not until Apple launched the first iPhone in 2007 that the smartphone world was set […]

Hack-and-squirt, sometimes referred to as frill-and-spray, is a herbicide application method that applies the herbicide into the stem (trunk) and is used to target specific undesirable trees. There is a slight variance between hack-and-squirt and frill-and-spray. Generally, hack-and-squirt refers to a cut or series of cuts around the trunk of the tree determined by tree […]