Ragwort at university equine unit

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Went to watch my friends' daughter ride at a PC rally held at a "centre of excellence" the other day.
Round some new boxes by the indoor yard were several ragwort plants all in full bloom amongst the resident horses.
On the walkway down to the main yard was hedge of ragwort 3 feet high and 10 feet long.
The stuff was still there for the campus open day the following week and in the fields so high it obscured the XC jumps.
Does no one care anymore?
 
I know of a college that has ragwort in a field of grazing horses! Disgrace isnt it?! Particularly as they have the man power and machinery to manage the land. Email the yard manager and complain!
 
you can report them to the rspca i had to do it to my old yard as i left as they wouldnt remove it rspca turned up the week after i left rang them and they had to clear it within a set amount of time didnt want to do it but couldnt leave that on my mind those poor horses it only took 5min phone call
 
Lol, I wonder if we are all thinking of the same place or whether there is more than one?
The one I know of not only had Ragwort in their fields, but had it in the hay as well. When the liveries complained about the hay they were told to stop making such a fuss and just pick it out.....
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This Ragwort business is one long piss take as far as I can see, we have it all around our fields and it's all along the roads around us, one roundabout near our fields is covered in it, every year we are expected to do our share of clearing our fields, seems pointless unless the other fields which are council public park fields are cleared, usual story, "most" of us do our share, nobody seems interested.
 
I think i could probably guess the college too from a couple of comments. If it is so, a student did a dissertation on the quality of the hay/haylage and the relation of those horses who ate it and subsequently got colic... unfortunately i never heard the results!!!
 
I was just having the same conversation today about ragwort.

Our top field is covered, and will be starting on it this weeks before the horses go on. What makes me so mad is that it is infact an offence to let it grow, but yet it is all along a very major road that is adjacent to our field.

The coucil is very quick to pull the 'public' on their wrong doing, how about their own responsibility to the law.

IF it was not for their mess of ragwort, we would not be having this problem.

Maybe it is time for a petition
 
Dosent seem important to the people we think should care about the dangers of this noxious weed.. just yesterday I had a row with a young vet about the field she was renting being full of ragwort her answer to the problem was... its going to be topped which it was !!! I pointed out it was palitable to horses once it dryed out and cutting it would spread seeds she got in a strop and told me she spent 7 years at uni and i was an idiot who didnt understand..!!!
Im sorry but im yet to be convinced that these kids learn much of any use at college here in dummed down, risk adverse GB...
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Our fields get swaped by it because our neighbours do nothing about it and seem to like it in their fields!! Makes me so cross that I'm out there pulling it up on a daily basis to keep on top of it and yet the neighbours seem to do nothing ggggrrrrrr!!!!
 
Like everthing else, bird flu swine flu flooding blah blah, lets all put our heads in the sand and it will go away, I see no ships said Nelson putting his telescope to his blind eye......
 
Its so fustrating all our fields have the ragwort pulled as soon as we see it, but next door it is just topped and comes back within a few weeks!
 
It drives me mad as well, every where you go the verges and roundabouts are covered in it. Even spied it at my sons school in the wild flower garden, will be having a word with the head on Monday.
We havent got any at our yard at the moment but it only a matter of time before it closes in on us.
 
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i got an absolute raving gobful off some chav woman re: ragwort...
i was walking my dog and saw a little girl in a front garden picking a bouquet (sp) of the evil stuff

so i walked up the path, knocked on the door and told the waynetta slob-a-like that answer the door about it being poisonous and it not being a good idea for a child to be playing with it...

apparently i should effing mind my own effing business as its none of my effing business what her kid does and i should effinf eff off...

so...
 
Maybe you should have told her to put it in the dinner for her whole family and do the world a favour, thats if they actually cook any food in between fags booze and takeaways, before you wear the f key out on your keyboard
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Hey Legend could be.
This yard is run by a BHSI who told liveries after they had complained about ragwort in the hay to "get in their little cars and go somewhere else.
This yard is BHS approved as well!!!!!
 
Under the code of practice attached to the Ragwort Control Act 2003 the public can ask landowners to deal with Ragwort where it may endanger livestock. High Risk constitutes Ragwort within 50m of either horses grazing or forage feed production. If this fails they can alert DEFRA which will serve the landowner a compliance order .
Contact DEFRA on 08459 335577 www.defra.gov.uk
If growing on Motorways or Trunk Roads contact the Highways Agency 08457 504030
If growing on Minor Roads contact your local County Council
If growing on railway lines Railway lines 08457 114141
 
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