Kudzu

[Pilot]

Recent vacation, visited Texas, Louisana & Mississippi. That kudzu sure was impressive! But it was mostly absent from cultivated fields. What do you guys do to control it? Locals said most herbicides just make it mad.

 

[Soundguy]

I've seen sheep and goats eat it to the ground. Ibelieve I saw a discovery channel show that illustrated one city bringing in herds of sheep/goats in small moveable pens to control that folage..

soundguy

 

[woodchuckie]

I believe that constant cultivation keeps it under contro but once you stop it'll come right back.

 

[hudr]

I read/saw/heard a study that was done using different herbivores to control it. Cows won't eat it close enough. Goats do a decent job, but the sheep ate it closer and apparently their hooves were sharper and broke the vines at ground level and helped control them.
Seems I read somewhere a kudzu vine was recorded as growing a solid foot overnight.

 

[mudcat]

I once saw ad for propane on a billboard that said something like "we cover more of Georgia than kudzu."