Kudzu control

jcramsey

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Marion, NC
Looking at some property and it’s got about an acre and a half covered in kudzu. Anybody got any experience effectively cleaning it out? I was leaning towards getting some goats, but there are restrictions against animals other than cats/dogs for this property. :rolleyes:
 
Just read an article the other day, about a Park, or some place, with a Kudzu problem. They weren't allowed to use pesticides, so they ended up Renting a flock of goats, to clean it up. There are several goat owners that Rent their goats out, for environmental control. Wonder if you'd be allowed to Rent the goats?
 
jcramsey said:
Looking at some property and it’s got about an acre and a half covered in kudzu. Anybody got any experience effectively cleaning it out? I was leaning towards getting some goats, but there are restrictions against animals other than cats/dogs for this property. :rolleyes:
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I used to have a pretty good patch behind the fenced part of my yard, scraped it off and regraded the rear of the lot planted fescue and keep it mowed, haven’t had any real issue other than the field behind us gets continually over grown and it tries to creep back. I mow runners all the time, but noting has taken and rooted again. Been 10 years or so.
 
My baby goats love the shit and they are cuter than any cat.
I'd get a few goats and wait on the neighbors to say something...by the time the notice the problem may be gone.

We have pygmy and dwarf goats in an hoa...and so far we've gotten away with it
 
Supposedly there is a pesticide that can kill it..

If you are planning on animals, it is high in protein.

Otherwise, I've always heard you have to big up the crown root to keep it from coming back.

I'm interested if anyone has details, as I have about a half acre that I need to get under control.

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Thanks to NCDOT we have a healthy serving of it along the road that creeps up a security fence and down the river bank. I round up the daylights out of it every year and it dies back but never goes away. If you don't get every bit of it at once it comes right back.
 
jcramsey said:
It’s pretty rural with only maybe three other parcels that are under the restrictions in the deed. I think the neighbors might be open to goats cleaning it up like @ramjo said.

If all else fails,maybe @YotaOnRocks will loan me his bush hog of death to scalp the ground with....
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Welcome to it anytime:beer:

A jobsite a couple years ago had it all over the place. The grader put a retention pond in after timbering 8 acres consumed by it. To this day there is still no trace of it out there. So maybe removing the topsoil will get it.
 
I have had pretty good luck getting rid of it with brush and stump killer i got from tractor supply. I spray it on it in when it start growing in the spring. It will take about 2 weeks before it start to die. It kills the roots and i watch for the spots i didn't get sprayed good and respray . It has taken me about 2 years to get rid of it. Just bought some property and has some kudzu on it will take care of it this spring.
 
A friend inherited an abandoned house and property about 15 years ago that was covered in it. We spent an afternoon dragging it out with my jeep. Got it 95% out. It took about 10 years to get back to nuisance level, but he did absolutely nothing to control it in that time.
 
guffey24 said:
AquaSweep 3oz/gallon of water
Lontrel .5oz/gallon of water
Ranger Pro 2oz/gallon of water

mix those all together
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Suitable for application near water? Theres a small stream running through the middle of the kudzu that feeds into another stream on the property.
 
Goats will eat it but if they are removed from the property it will come right back. Salisbury tried the goat trick on an area they made some walking trails on, the first year it was clear the next you couldn't find the trails.
 
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