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Originally Posted by Peter James[_4_]
You know that no farmer worthy of the name would allow ragwort to grow
in his pastures or hay fields. Every livestock farmer I've ever known,
and I spent a working lifetime selling farm machinery in the West
Country, walked his pastures regularly and inspected them for ragwort
and other injurious plants.
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If you do have it, you can manage it but hardly eradicate it. Ragwort is everywhere around where I live. There is scrubland utterly covered in it - the council has insisted the owners regularly mow it, but what else can they do? It is a lawn weed in everyone's garden hereabouts. It grows on the grass verges. And you can't eradicate it from your lawn - I pull up every plant I see - because seeds blow in. The field behind my garden is a hayfield owned by a family who have horses. They mow it and put the hay into haybales. I don't know if they give it to their horses. It has some amount of ragwort in it, but what can they do? You can't walk around a field of several acres pulling up every ragwort plant before mowing it. Very close by are several fields that horses graze on, they apparently manage.