🚀 go-pugleaf

Theo Hopkins wrote:
> 
> In article <RjmPuQAga011EwFl@wharfe.demon.co.uk>, David Brear
> <dbrear@wharfe.demon.co.uk> writes
> >I seem to have lost the beginning of this thread in uk.environment.
> >conservation so forgive me for starting over again.
> There are many of 'out of cultivativation' fields round here in Devon
> that are a sea of bright yellow ragwort right now. As some of these
> fields may well be fields that have other wild flowers as they have not
> been fertilised or weedkillered or reseeded, should people be worried
> that the non target wildflowers and grasses could be wiped out with weed
> killers to comply with whatever laws there are or 'good practice' with
> hay-making??
> --

There has been a lot of discussion on this issue on uk.rec.equestrian as
ragwort is poisonous to horses.  The issue is not just about the animals
eating either growing ragwort or dried plant material in hay but also
the plants in adjacent fields seeding fields where stock is grazed.

There have been several useful postings on what to do and where to get
info. so perhaps peolple who are concerned/interested could look on that
newsgroup.

Carys E. Brewster