wild onions

[Roy in georgia]

ok some of you dairy farmers might know this one my uncle asked me to find out how to get rid of wild onions some type of fertilizer?

 

[RobMD]

I had about 10 bales filled full of the wild onion stands. Although you couldn't really smell it through the clover, i've seen my cows "wince" and sort of spit it out with their tongues. Kinda funny.

 

[noncompos]

Probably 15 yrs or so ago now our Chief Counsel, who at the time had a few cows, including a couple milk cows, brought a bushel of onions to work--not wild ones, but commercially grown yellow ones, like you'd cook with--saying a container full had been dropped down on the docks, and he'd gotten a couple pickup loads to feed to his cows, that they loved 'em. Said you couldn't taste 'em in the milk...are the wild ones that much stronger??

 

[LenND]

Just one little wild onion in a dairy bulk tank and you've lost the whole works. BTDT

 

[joe e-tx]

smell great in front yard. love first mowing of yard. there not in my pastures that i know of.

 

[Willy P]

I spray with round up before the bermuda grass starts growing and it gets them.

 

[Walt Davies]

Out here in Oregon they smell and taste like Garlic. Make really good fried onion cakes.
Walt

 

[Anonymous-0]

About the first thing to start growing in the spring. Just turn the heifers (or dry cows) out for a few days when things first start to green up. Heifers will eat them off before the milking cows get to them.

 

[Roy in georgia]

thanks my uncle wants to get these out of his yard but he knew wild onions would ruin a vat of milk so I figured someone would know