Yes, we have. We had a huge problem with it in our field last year.
Pastora will kill crabgrass (also kills bahia), but its very expensive. I think it was $260 to purchase enough to do our 7.5 acre field and that was last fall. I don"t know how long you have to wait after spraying to cut for forage for horses.
Good news is crabgrass doesn"t come back very well. So little of it sprouted this year, we never sprayed the Pastora.
Crabgrass takes longer to cure than bermuda because of the heavier stems and leaves. It will sour if baled too soon, turns an ugly brown regardless of how it cures and doesn"t smell very good even when completely cured. Really makes a mess of good coastal hay.
Crabgrass would be an excellent forage if you could get it to cure well. When it was such a problem last year, we talked to our Ag agent a lot about it. According to him, they"ve been trying for years to come up with a good way to cure it, but haven"t yet.
Another problem with trying to raise it for forage is that, according to studies, unless you "disturb" the soil, very little of the crabgrass that comes up one year, will come up the next.
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