What agricultural weed is your biggest problem? To what extent does it affect productivity.?

Question

What control methods have you tried?

Answer 1

I had to think about this one for quiet a while.  We virtually have no weed problems.  I'd say the biggest problem plant would be stinging nettles.  

We use the lawn mower to get rid of them, or move a few cattle panels, and pen some goats over them, giving them no choice but to eat the nettles.

Since I raise meat goats, weeds are NOT a problem on our fields.  

For the person who raises cattle and stated that thistles are a big problem, run a small herd of meat goats in with your cattle.  The goats ADORE thistles, and will eat them, even before stands of alfalfa!  If you stock meat goats with your cattle, you will provide more pasture for your cattle, and be able to stock more animals per acre, have zero money spent on chemicals, and MAKE money selling the offspring of the meat goats.

Goats and cattle compliment each other in a pasture beautifully.

~Garnet

Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years

Answer 2

goat weeds thistles bull nettles it takes over my pasters spraying

Answer 3

Not really productivity but cattle.... The worlds worst...the THISTLE. It takes over my grandpas land where the cows are just uncomfortable and they sit in the woods. He used commercial weed killer put it on the back of a truck and spread it everywhere

Answer 4

id say the musturd weed( thats what i call it) in the oats fields, if it is not sprayed it can take over the whole field, it is sprayed every year