Most hated weed?

[furrowtickler]

Justin Trudeau

[Guest]

Justin Trudeau

Shit !
Was just lookin for a pic of dipshit and was gonna post it

[grassfarmer]

What's with the hate on burdock in pastures? Our animals love it. If they are not accustomed to eating it put some male animals on it early in the spring as they crave something in it - bulls, steers, rams, billy-goats or whatever you have. Once they've learned they will teach the rest to eat it.

[sawfly1]

Wild oats , kochia
Hawksbeard horsetail cleavers.
That order
30 40 years ago
It was quackgrass wild oats green foxtail Canada thistle

[farming101]

I'm with Jazz. Round leafed mallow and cleavers. Field horsetail is a tough one too. Foxtail barley is always present but we do give it a free ride some years.

Cleavers can be decimated in the field but will re-infest from field margins and slough edges the minute you turn your back

[rumrocks]

What's with the hate on burdock in pastures? Our animals love it. If they are not accustomed to eating it put some male animals on it early in the spring as they crave something in it - bulls, steers, rams, billy-goats or whatever you have. Once they've learned they will teach the rest to eat it.

Are you talking about Great Burdock or Common Burdock?

[WiltonRanch]

Chamomile is nasty. Toadflax comes and goes here but not as big of an issue with zero tillage and better herbicide regimes. Hemp nettle my dark companion is a pain. Worst weed by far poplars.

[blackpowder]

All good candidates.
But the most grief and lost money over my career would always be wild oats.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Worst weed by far poplars.

I second that, poplars cause the most economic damaga around here. What other weed can drastically reduce crop yield in a 50 foot radius from a single specimen?

[grassfarmer]

Are you talking about Great Burdock or Common Burdock?

Both - although befitting it's name the common is more common.

The one weed in our pastures that cows won't eat is American licorice. In recent days I've seen some affected by some type of smut so perhaps there is a natural control method for it.

[MBgrower]

wild buckwheat. bad in liberty canola.

By the way how do the railways look in your area? They sterilized the shoulders of the lines a couple years ago, and as i predicted, full of canada thistle now, polluting all adjacent farm fields.

[farmaholic]

wild buckwheat. bad in liberty canola.

By the way how do the railways look in your area? They sterilized the shoulders of the lines a couple years ago, and as i predicted, full of canada thistle now, polluting all adjacent farm fields.

In some places that ingenious move leached(ran off) onto the farmland, but it just might have been their right of way to start with.

I forecasted exactly what you described. Instead of those lazy ****en bastards mowing the right of way they chose sterilization. Last mower I seen being used for cutting the right of way was a sickle mower! Really! In this day and age! Why not use a flail or gyro? And the ****ing crossing planks they replace are left to rot and catch snow in a pile at the crossings. There is even pieces of cut out rail at one crossing where a low boy trailer snagged and bent the rail. And a whole section length assembly of two rails a ties that were used to put the train back on the track where it derailed about 10 -15 years ago.....they blamed the RM for filling in the crossing with snow and it packing in! Edit in: that excess snow at the crossing was a direct result of them NOT mowing their right of way. How do you do a decent job of mowing with a pile of crossing planks at the intersection of the municipal road and railway.....geniuses!!!!!! The RM did the best job it could clearing the snow that was there because of their negligence.

Lazy ****en assholes and book smart practically stupid management!!!!!!

So party on weeds....it will be the first thing to re-establish on the right of way

Sorry for " derailing" and getting "off track" in this tread.

[bigzee]

My worst weeds ....... couple of my neighbours.
That have weeds the University wouldn’t be able to identify.

[sumdumguy]

wild buckwheat. bad in liberty canola.

By the way how do the railways look in your area? They sterilized the shoulders of the lines a couple years ago, and as i predicted, full of canada thistle now, polluting all adjacent farm fields.

1. Wonder how they were allowed to do that sterilization-what a kill- wonder what chemical was used? And now thistle?

2. Seems erosion will also be a factor as well as the thistles. Just saying because last week we saw the first washed-out rail beds from weekend storm.

[blackpowder]

Not sure what CP used but everything still dead here after a couple years.