Dock control

[Agrispeed]

Similar effect here.

I use docks as a KPI - if they are still standing then you haven't grazed hard enough! I generally don't worry about them too much as they are at least edible, as long as you don't get particularly dense patches.

Loads of dock beetle here, which helps a bit too.

 

[exmoor dave]

I've read a few articles on training cattle to eat docks by pulling some up put in a trough and give the docks a spray of molasses,
Repeat til cattle actively go eating docks.

I was going to try it on a really docky field earlier this year..... but the cattle eat all the docks before i had a chance to try to train them

 

[escapedfromunderthecow]

There is a beetle that destroys docks, we introduced some two yaers ago and now we dont have a dock on the farm. Its a buuger when you get caught by a stinging nettle! Wish we could find something for creeping thistle

 

[onesiedale]

There is a beetle that destroys docks, we introduced some two yaers ago and now we dont have a dock on the farm. Its a buuger when you get caught by a stinging nettle! Wish we could find something for creeping thistle

So where did you introduce them from?

 

[Sharpy]

There is a beetle that destroys docks, we introduced some two yaers ago and now we dont have a dock on the farm. Its a buuger when you get caught by a stinging nettle! Wish we could find something for creeping thistle

I would like to know how you introduced them too.