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1) It is not notifiable. No plants, as far as I am aware, are notifiable. If someone tells you that a plant is notifiable, try asking them who you are supposed to notify ;-) 2) You are not obliged to pull it up, merely to take measure to avoid its spreading IF you have been served notice to this effect by the Ministry (ie someone else has been able to demonstrate that your ragwort is spreading on to their land). It is covered by two Acts The Weeds Act 1959, which covers spear thistle, creeping thistle, curled dock, broad leaved dock and ragwort, allows MAFF (presumably now DEFRA) to serve a notice on a landowner to take whatever measures are required to stop the weed spreading. The Ragwort Control Act 2003 provides for the Minister to draw up a code of practice on the control of Ragwort.
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"kay" wrote in message ... Christina Websell;964507 Wrote: Unless you have horses. They will rarely eat ragwort when it is growing but when dried in hay they will and not a lot of it causes severe liver damage up to and including death. I did say a reason for not killing ALL the ragwort. Of course you're going to kill it on or next to grazing land. But it is a british native plant, and therefore I don't think it is reasonable to seek to eradicate completely from the UK. ISTR that ragwort is a notifiable weed and you are obliged to pull it up by law. I might be wrong on this. yes, you are indeed wrong on two counts.[/i][/color] I knew it! 1) It is not notifiable. No plants, as far as I am aware, are notifiable. If someone tells you that a plant is notifiable, try asking them who you are supposed to notify ;-) 2) You are not obliged to pull it up, merely to take measure to avoid its spreading IF you have been served notice to this effect by the Ministry (ie someone else has been able to demonstrate that your ragwort is spreading on to their land). It is covered by two Acts The Weeds Act 1959, which covers spear thistle, creeping thistle, curled dock, broad leaved dock and ragwort, allows MAFF (presumably now DEFRA) to serve a notice on a landowner to take whatever measures are required to stop the weed spreading. The Ragwort Control Act 2003 provides for the Minister to draw up a code of practice on the control of Ragwort. Maybe I was thinking of this Act. I did say I could be wrong about it being notifiable. I've eliminated it from my land. It took a few years. -- kay |
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I suppose that, if there is a dispute about controlling ragwort, and one side says "I have taken all reasonable steps to prevent it spreading", the other side can say "have you taken all the steps described in the Code of Practice?" You are surrounded by grazing land, I believe. I am in the middle of town, with one horse half a mile away as the crow flies, and the nearest cows or sheep a mile away. On the other hand, I do have cinnabar moths and no groundsel - they lay their eggs on species of Senecio, not on grasses - so I don't feel the same need to try to eradicate a native plant.
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