Bl%%dy neighbours ragwort is making ME ill!!!

joy

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I rent two acres for my broodmare and for the last 3 years my field which is old lay and should be producing super haylage is full of bloody ragwort.
Every spring I pull and poison and every summer while the mare is at stud I pull and poison. Meanwhile next doors' 10 acres is wall to wall ragwort, bracken, gorse and docks.
The woman who owns the land moved out when she married a farmer and she will neither sell the land nor rent it responsibly.
She rented to an idiot who neglected his horses until the RSPCA and the BHS got involved. They rolled up slapped him on the wrist for not providing water yet neither of these dunces thought it right to mention that the the shire was standing belly deep in ragwort and the 12 hand pony was swallowed up in the stuff.
This woman was at PC camp last week mouthing off to my YO about how brilliant her 3yo daughter is at riding though not presumably ragwort recognition. As she is married to a farmer she has the wherewithall to poison off, plough and reseed but why should she she doesn't graze it any more.
FUMING.
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I don't really know but surely there's some legal loophole here you can exploit. Isn't it new rules that land owners have to be responsible and keep poisonous plants out? I really don't know the ins and outs but maybe contact the local council or rspca, see if they at least know the rules. Of course, they may not count if there are not horses in that particular field.
 
You need to contact Defra, thats who I contacted last year regarding a very bad field with at least half a dozen horses grazing it. You have to put it in writing and take photos if you can. They will sort it out. they need the land owners name and address if you have it too. Good luck
 
yep tell me about it ive been pulling loads up this year, probly due to field next to mine being full of te stuff!!!

and they had a brilliant idea of topping it off and then putting cows and a horse in the field after, i mean do people know nothing!!
 
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