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Report
R026 **
Problem:
Creeping thistle, Docks, Spear Thistle in arable & permanent
pasture
Where: The Netherton Centre, Battle, East Sussex
When: November 2003
Status: Organic
Area: Unrecorded
Details: Speak to Farming Group & Demonstrate RIP
Talk
& demonstrate to an Organic Farming Group. Principal problem
expressed by group (mostly graziers), seemed to be Creeping
thistle in pasture. L-D. demonstrated the removal of Docks
& Spear thistle in a stubble field, and showed the chisel
hoe at work. We discussed the possibility of an East Sussex
Workforce, to be formed later (in June 2004)
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