Field overgrown with Binweed/Ragwort & Thistles & Dockens

I'd pull the ragworth and dispose of safely away from cattle after it decays it bit it becomes palatable and it can cause big problems as you probably know ......unless you can have it stripped for ages

If you can top the rest of it do and maybe hit it with a spray in autumn or spring next year (forefront maybe)

After one or two annual repeats of that it should be the finest

Tbh I don't bother with spray anymore in grazing fields unless it's chronic....a good topping and keep it grazed goes a long way.....I think rightly or wrongly they are bringing up stuff from deep in the soil (deep roots) and topping them gefore they get to seed is helping fertilise....at least that's what I tell myself!

Stick at it with the ragworth and it will work....you'll get it to maintenance level....had 14 acres of it yellow as a field of oilseed rape back when I was a teenager and my father got ill and it was left to its own devices....3 years and it was down to 5/6 per year

Used to wait until soil fairly damp to pull them easy and accept the couple that snapped.....pain in the hole foing it when ground hard....

I've seen lads spray and top them and strip for ages too...just wouldnt trust I wouldn't make a mistake and let stock back too early

Sheep great for keeping away ragworth I find

Pull and dispose of the ragworth

Regular topping will tidy it up well, spray if you want a quicker result but topping weakens most weeds and thickens the grass.

Problem is that it will get rid of plenty of other good things too, including clover. To be fair that field isn't too bad at all, an hour or so for a few evenings to pull the ragwort and then a decent topping will tidy things up nicely.

Ragworth seed stays in the ground for 2 years as in u need to pull it for 2 years and the 3rd year it should be well under control

I have a couple of field with too many for pulling. I am topping every grazing pretty much.

Organic this year so spraying is out and I have too much clover to do it anyway.

Will report back in year 3 😀

No N so standard is 4-5 weeks. Hoping topping might get me to a place where I can pull.

First year in organic transition here and an established chap I met at a recent agri show told me Soay Sheep are great at blitzing ragwort. Thinking of getting a few as have one bad field were where even the cinnebar catepillars are having a hard time getting thru them.

Goats will do a decent job too (not all weeds but overgrown areas etc)...if you can contain them.....that's the hard bit. I knew a lad that had a derelict cottage on an overgrown site, 2 goats and good fencing.