Examples of ragwort

• I have known fields that in the last 10 years have gradually disappeared, encroached upon by bracken, thistles, or ragwort.

• Last summer, there was a proliferation of ragwort on roadside verges and on railway embankments.

• First, there is a risk that horses and ponies will eat ragwort growing in field and paddocks.

• Priority is given to the control of ragwort on highway land which is adjacent to or near agricultural or grazing land.

• This included a study of the factors influencing the spread of ragwort, such as changes in land use, changes in agricultural policy and climate change.

• Questions were asked earlier about the code's application only to common ragwort.

• I know from experience that ragwort is a real problem.

• I earnestly hope that landowners and occupiers will act to clear ragwort before enforcement proceedings begin.

• Secondly, as has already been pointed out, there is a risk that ragwort will contaminate dried forage.

• She said that county councils should have authority to implement eradication plans or at any rate to deal with ragwort in one way or another.

• We want to avoid increasing the costs and bureaucracy for those who can take measures to eradicate ragwort.

• We do not want landowners to be prosecuted for failing to notice a tiny patch of ragwort on their land.

• He said that, if the effect of controlling ragwort was the destruction of that moth, it was fine by him.

• There is confusion between common ragwort and other forms of the plant, and the difference needs to be made clear.

• It is not illegal for them to have ragwort grow.