Toxic Time Bomb Ticks
In The Wake Of F&M

P
astures left ungrazed because of the foot and mouth outbreak in the UK are becoming increasingly toxic and even carcinogenic.

Bracken can cause cancer in animals and harbours disease-spreading ticks. It can also contaminate milk and meat products from animals grazing the pasture. Bracken is toxic to humans if ingested and gives off spores that cause breathing problems.

'Bracken is very invasive and toxic to animals, as well as stripping nutrients from the soil . . . a change in grazing patterns could lead to a total loss of pastures,' according to Professor Monique Simmonds of the Institute of Biology.

Bracken growth is usually limited by government-funded control and by being trampled underfoot by livestock.

But the huge culls in recent months to eradicate foot and mouth disease (FMD) means that the animals are no longer there. The FMD crisis also means that government funding is being used in other areas. A herbicide specialist blamed the lack of funding for the current increase in bracken area.

This increase in bracken is particularly a problem in the uplands of Wales and Cornwall, as the plant prefers the fertile land on hilltops. Dairy farming, which often relies on the fertile uplands could, therefore, be at real risk within the next 18 months, says Jim Taylor, chairman of the International Bracken Group. 'The events of this year have been an absolute disaster,' he says.

Bracken domination of pastures is almost totally irreversible because of the high cost of control (=A3370/ha) and the persistence of its rhizomes, or underground branches, in the soil for up to ten years.

FROM:
http://www.chemind.org/news/issue15/story1.html

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