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we used a mixture of depitox and think the other was agritox or something like that did the trick last year out of interest how long should you keep cattle out for after spraying?
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we used a mixture of depitox and think the other was agritox or something like that did the trick last year out of interest how long should you keep cattle out for after spraying?
we used a mixture of depitox and think the other was agritox or something like that did the trick last year out of interest how long should you keep cattle out for after spraying?
2,4 D at full rate. In Headland Polo it comes with MCPA which will do thistles, buttercups and docks too.
Not all horse owners are lazy numpties. I remember one spring spending quite a few evenings and weekend afternoons going over a 14 acre field in a grid pattern with a weed fork, removing barrow-loads of ragwort rosettes. I'd moved to the livery yard in the winter and the ragwort was out of control. The dunce in this case was the yard owner who bollocked me for digging up the primroses.The trouble is that most horsey people don't notice ragwort at easily controlled rosette stage in the early/mid spring, then notice it when it springs up tall and flowers, then expect an instant fix.
The trouble is that most horsey people don't notice ragwort at easily controlled rosette stage in the early/mid spring, then notice it when it springs up tall and flowers, then expect an instant fix.
Not all horse owners are lazy numpties. I remember one spring spending quite a few evenings and weekend afternoons going over a 14 acre field in a grid pattern with a weed fork, removing barrow-loads of ragwort rosettes. I'd moved to the livery yard in the winter and the ragwort was out of control. The dunce in this case was the yard owner who bollocked me for digging up the primroses.
edited to add: It was most satisfying to hear a couple of years after I'd moved that he got a Defra notice to clear all his land, not just the grazing fields, after complaints from his neighbours. Sucks to be him
Thrust - (Dicamba + 24D) - is one of the most effective herbicides.
But if anyone is pulling ragwort, forget about the first-year plants at the rosette stage.
Wear gloves, and concentrate on pulling the second-year plants just as they have come into flower. If soil moisture is just right, roots will easily come up with plant.
Next year, last year's rosettes will have come into flower. Pull them.
The year after, you will have broken the back of the ragwort problem.
Exactly. Get them to do the work. Why is there no ragwort on sheep pastures?I'm going to say it!
put some sheep on it in the spring. The horses won't get laminitis and die as a bonus.
Polo is too pish weak for this job, it's the sort of thing I sprayed on young leys. I have never used it on established grassland, even at full rate with an adjuvant, and found it particularly impressive at all. Adding cimarron worked but that isn't effective on all weeds either.
Get out with full rate depitox and full rate agritox and have a crack with that.
I’ve found that 24D will work, provided you use enough of it and you will probably still need to do it twice in 3 weeks to get it all. Forefront is a one off solution that will last.
I know the sort of Breckland soils that Big Mr C is on and Forefront is what I’d definitely want to use there.
Its Roses problem was mentioned on Gardners Question Time and there were licensing issues because of the horse droppings being used in gardens. At one stage, only Devon and Cornwall CC’s were allowed to use it on their roadside verges.
Maybe it's a matter of perspective - v - snowflakiness!Maybe it’s me being a snowflake, but any spray which is still effective the following year, in muck from stock which have eaten sprayed fodder, just can’t be good!!
Personally I wouldn’t allow Forefront inside my gate. I also think a fair share of non professional sprayers like stock farmers, don’t take due care and attention with this product.?
Thanks for all the advise. Just for a bit of clarification. We are quite a large horse breeding enterprise all our muck is taken away we don't sell any in bags from the front gate. Thanks
Thanks for all the advise. Just for a bit of clarification. We are quite a large horse breeding enterprise all our muck is taken away we don't sell any in bags from the front gate. Thanks
Is it taken by a farmer for spreading on their own land?
it about 300 acre sight divided up it smaller paddocks ranging from 30 acres down to 1/4 acre or smaller. small paddocks it does get pulled so its the larger ones we want to spray.What acreage is the Ragwort over?