Posted by RBoots on June 21, 2016 at 18:43:07 from (173.241.113.102):
In Reply to: autumn olive? posted by mmidlam on June 20, 2016 at 20:56:01:
About 20-25 years ago, the soil conservation district made dad put them in as a windbreak to stay compatible with some CRP land he had. They were supposed to be amazing cover, food sources. Well, they do work wonders for cover, as they take over everything. I have rarely seen a bird eat the berries, unless it's bitter cold and there is nothing else. Fast forward to now, and the soil conservation district wantso you to let them know where they have spread to, and would like all of the area farmers to donate their time and equipment to remove them. Some if let get large enough, can be 20' tall, 20' wide bush, with numerous large trunks from one root. I have seen some with trunks 10-12" diameter. I have thousands of acres of wetland/state hunting land around me, and it is overrun with it. Dad bought 15 acres that was completely covered with it, huge ones, and with the 2 of us working at it with a backhoe and a skidsteer with forks, it took a 3 day weekend to completely clear it for farmland. Randy is right, if you push with a loader close to the ground on the trunk, it will slide the roots right out with minimal dirt. Dad used the forks on his skidsteer on the small ones. He would just spear the fork in the ground under it, and pop it out of the ground. If you mow them, they will come back year after year after year, unless the stump is sprayed in a timely fashion. When. I cut them at work when clearing road sides, I hit the stump with a bath of Pathfinder, they never come back.
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