[ozzymandus]

Glad to hear the part about controlling musk thistle. I have a pasture infested with it and it is evil and nearly unkillable. After over 10 years of digging and spraying it, I deluded myself into thinking I was winning, until a wet winter caused all the dormant seeds to germinate last summer. The horror, the horror!

[nw_arizona_granny]

Welcome to the thread, I am glad there was something useful for you.

If one keeps digging, LOL, I mean on the internet, there may be other methods that work.

How sad to have a useless pasture and the world so full of animals willing to live there.

Do you have cows or horses on it? Will goats eat it? Or hogs?

http://www.google.com/search?q=controlling+musk+thistle&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

http://www.google.com/search?q=controlling+musk+thistle+hogs&btnG=Search&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=ROw&sa=2

added ‘with’ several maybes:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=controlling+musk+thistle+with+hogs&btnG=Search

Good, I love goats and they will eat it:

http://www.google.com/search?q=controlling+musk+thistle+with++goats&btnG=Search&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&sa=2

I have read of some areas with lots of weeds that have goat ranchers who rent out their goats for clearing land.