Pull it before you mow, I did with a field we bought a few years ago.Thoughts please?
Got a field with beautiful ryegrass and clover, but plenty of ragwort...
Would be for low yielding dairy cows.
TIA
As above, pull it. If its really a lot of ragwort we did a field by cutting a swathe round the outside and one swathe every 100ft across the field, we then pulled the ragwort and dumped it onto the swathes. These were baled and dumped when we cut the rest of the fi
As above, pull it. If its really a lot of ragwort we did a field by cutting a swathe round the outside and one swathe every 100ft across the field, we then pulled the ragwort and dumped it onto the swathes. These were baled and dumped when we cut the rest of the field.
Far too many visits from the white van man with herbicides I would think for anything to survive on their lawns! Mr Green-Thumb or something... fingers more like soaked in MCPA I reckon....Have they got Ragwort in the gardens now.
Haha too many.Couldn't you just walk the whole thing, pulling the ragwort. If it is early enough, it should lift after you've trampled it. A good podcast on your phone and it is quite a therapeutic job. Better than wild oats!!
Good point I should ask my vet...Our vet recons ragwort doesn’t affect milkers too much. We’ve got a few bad fields on rented ground but he felt it’s a tiny amount compared to overall intakes
cleared this farm of ragwort when we started keeping sheep, amazing, sheep went 10 years ago, and still don't get much.No way feed it Lethal stuff
F***ing Horrible Weed!started with the letter F.
Thank god someone said it I wouldn't even graze animals in the same field with it!Ragwort is highly poisonous to cattle by all accounts and it is cumulative. The more they eat, the more they kill their livers. Unfortunately harvested ragwort is more palatable to cows than ones growing fresh. If you want to avoid animals that don’t ‘do’ with a few literal dead-losses, ask yourself ‘do I feel lucky today?'