Spray for Thistles

The amount of seed eating birds that are killed after weed killers have been applied to docks and thistles is shocking. So there are a few thistles or docks in your fields, do you have to obliterate everything with weed killer?!?! This is the sort of Stone Age **** that gives farmers a bad name

Thanks for replies,thistles on rocky ground that can’t be topped.

Never saw such a good year for them to grow!……anyone else notice that?

Man that sprays for me reckoned it was too hot in the good spell to spray and then we had a brutal wet July so time window might be gone by for this year.

I've a 3acre field. Spent all day yesterday trying to pull ragwort (only 1/4 of field done), back breaking work, some too hard to pull(managed to break ragworg puller tool too) .. and it's covered in thistles - very strong.high.

So today I've closed off the field now and gona try agritox 500, will use, knapsack day before agritox 500 on tractor..

You should still kill them now but won't stop the spread of this years seed.

Thanks for replys I had done the ragwort with knapsack apart from the several I missed(i now see, we'll turned town those sprayed) . But rain came and last hour of knapsack was non effective it looks .. But sprayed and I can see buttercups and some spear thistle not looking so well today. Will see about topping and picking ragwort (easier then pulling) and maybe buring and hopefully next spring some(or allot) forefront t (as its rainfast quick),..

Officially, last week I declared war on ragwort, thisles and buttercups.

What spray did you use to kill the ragwort?

I think it was forefront t,

On a side note some time ago after boom spraying took off mask and goggles at the end as pto was off (tank empty etc) and was folding the boom arm back before going through gap and the boom arm dropped into its slot and a drop flew right into my eye... you need to be careful with this stuff ALWAYS

Forefront T is the best product on the market for nettles and thistles followed by thistleX .I do a fair bit of contract grassland spraying and I have seen the best results from them

we used it along with D50 for docks, it certainly whipped them, but time will tell how well it got into the roots for long term.

Not too many thistles in it but some dandelion and soft rushes in 1 section, that I haven't checked yet. It was the merchants rep that recommended the d50. Maybe he just wanted to make a sale.