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Economical herbicide

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
Glyphosate is cheapest probably but not much else will survive around so no good for taking thistles out in grass as the grass goes to.
 

Happy

Member
Location
Scotland
One that works, rather than the one that’s cheapest.;) For thistles, it’s a job to beat Thistlex for efficacy, but it’s far from the cheapest. MCPA is regularly posted as the chem of choice on here, but you will probably have to do it again next year, and the next, and...

edit: see^🤣

Thistlex/Prevail is the one for Dandelion’s too.
Exactly what @GAM needs. If just this thistles and you want cheap MCPA would be the answer but for this job worth paying extra for the thistlex I’d say.
 

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Webinar: Expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive offer 2024 -26th Sept

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On Thursday 26th September, we’re holding a webinar for farmers to go through the guidance, actions and detail for the expanded Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) offer. This was planned for end of May, but had to be delayed due to the general election. We apologise about that.

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