Kudzu?
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I have been succesful at killing kudzu but it was alot of work. I did not use any herbicides. I cut it all with a machete and weedeater to get it managable with a lawnmower. I then cut it a couple times a week with a lawnmower set as low as it would go. It took about three years for it to quit coming back it was easily managable within 1 year. The trick is to knock it down and keep it constantly mowed. I moved away from that property 9 years ago. I drove by about a year ago and there was no sign of kudzu.
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Ouch. With 300 acres I would assume you got a tractor and bushhog atleast you could do some spot control where you need it most. Some livestock are supposed to eat it. I dont know which ones though. Their is some on the property behind me. I will go pull some and see if my goat eats it. That may not be a good alternative for you because three hundred acres would be expensive difficult and time consuming to fence. That is not even considering the time it would take to raise up a big enough herd to even make a dent in it. 300 acres is a little beyond my scope.
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Goats will eat it. I worked for a guy that rented three goats one time to help clear some kudzu around his pond. He staked them out on chains and said they did a fair job at keeping some of it down.
He said that he heard them "hollering" one Sunday morning and went out to see what was going on and said they all three were staring at his pond while still hollering. He sat down in a lawnchair that he used when he fished and watched the goats and soon he saw the problem. An alligator! He called the game warden and they came out and trapped it.
The gator was about five feet long he said.
He said that he heard them "hollering" one Sunday morning and went out to see what was going on and said they all three were staring at his pond while still hollering. He sat down in a lawnchair that he used when he fished and watched the goats and soon he saw the problem. An alligator! He called the game warden and they came out and trapped it.
The gator was about five feet long he said.
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Yeah me and my dad were talking about bushogging it but he was like "can you even bushhog that stuff?" I mean me and my dad took four wheelers up there and our tires we're a couple inches off the ground cause of the kudzu..
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haha ok, i mean it hasn't been a farm for like 25+ years cause after my dads dad died he could only keep it running cause he was workin and in college and doin the farm it only lasted a year.. and it's taken it all over and my dad said we need to do something
