Welcome to HayCow.com!

Topeka's place for premium quality products, excellent information, and premier service you've come to expect!

We offer a complete line of pet food, horse feed, and live-stock feed and supplies. Our staff will provide excellent advice and quality products for your lawn, garden, and pasture. With high quality brands like Purina, Blair, Priefert, John Deere Landscapes/Lesco and many others, we offer many fine products at fair prices. We hope that our service, attitude, and appearance, brings you back to Premier Farm and Home.

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TURF NEWS

It's Time For the Next Step! 

Check out the Premier Farm & Home Fertilizer Program. Printable version

 

   SPRING IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!

Make sure you evaluate your lawn in early spring.  Ask yourself this question... Do I have gaps in my yard with exposed soil larger than a footprint?  

If your answer is YES  I have many bare spots larger than a footprint,  you need to seed your lawn this spring.  Although not the ideal time to seed, you are left with little choice.  No amount of pre-emergent can turn a bare spot into grass.  Seed as soon as the soil thaws and it is dry enough to scratch in the seed.  You may want to take this opportunity to seed the whole lawn while your at it.  If not, at a minimum patch the bare spots. It is essential to restoring you yard.  We recommend using a Turf type tall Fescue, like Green Resistor, for most applications in the transition zone.  I also recommend using a starter fertilizer to get good root establishment and canopy coverage.  Figure out the total area ( length x width ) you need to seed.  Then head out to Premier!  We'll walk you through the process.  You may also like this How to Video.  All of our Turfgrass varieties are planted at the store for you to see.  Test Plots

If your answer is NO,  I do not have many areas of exposed soil larger than a foot print,  you should look at using a pre-emergent in the Spring.  A pre-emergent herbicide applied at the proper rate in spring will kill grassy weeds, and some broadleaves, as they come up.  Most treatments last for 2-3 months, but if you use Premier Farm and Home's line it will last twice as long.  Pre-emergents are primarily used to control weeds like Crabgrass, Foxtail, etc.  It works by creating a chemical barrier at the surface of the soil.  Since your lawn is mature, and has deep roots underneath the barrier, it is not affected by the herbicide.  When a seedling germinates at the surface it's fragile first roots move into the barrier and the herbicide is absorbed into the plant.  Once absorbed, root expansion and growth are halted, eventually killing any susceptible plant.  We recommend combination products containing Barricade (Prodiamine) or Dimension (Dithiopyr) bonded to fertilizer for use as crabgrass preventer.  These newer class chemicals are safer and last longer than products like Scott's Halts,  or Pendulum.

 

   

WHATS NEW?

 - EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS , check out our latest youtube videos! 

-NOW FILLING PROPANE BOTTLES,  We  are now setup to fill propane bottles for Grills and RV's

-Meet our NEW STAFF MEMBER GENNA GALLAHER She will be working for us as an outside salesperson, she hopes to see you out on the farm!

Click here for an extension publication on weed control in home lawns.

WEED CONTROL

  • Nifty sight dealing with weed ID and control-  WeedAlert.com
  • Soon it will be that time of year again...dandelion and clover are out in force.  Knock em' out with Trimec broad leaf weed killer.  Commercial strength Trimec 992 andTrimec Classic can help you tackle even the largest of broad leaf problems.

 

 

 

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Where we're located ...

 

900 SW University Blvd., in Topeka, KS