Don’t let cows or goats you plan to milk eat kudzu, gives the milk a peculiar flavor.
Plenty of other uses for the stuff though, it turns out. Several creative local farmers have found a way to convert a big stand of it into a cash crop. Harvest and bale, feed it to livestock. The vines are saleable to craft shops for certain wreaths and flower arrangements. The young leaves are edible and fairly tasty fried up in a light batter. Jellies made with the purple blooms tastes nice enough, the color seems to intensify as it’s cooked, which is unusual. And finally, the roots are not just edible but regarded as medicinal in Asia. Good hangover cure, helpful to stave off alcohol cravings in those who have a problem with it.
The vine that ate the south might turn into a blessing instead of a curse after all, lol. Now, if I could just figure out how to make biofuel out of it.
That might be worth looking into. The neighbors are gonna start talk when I'm out back torching weeds in various manners.
Sheep & goat poop...Dry it...burn it!
Excellent comments about the uses of kudzu.
One of the funniest uses for it I have seen was as a Halloween costume....the guy came as a bush...he tied long strands of it together in the middle put it on his head and had someone trim it around his feet. He walked around all night looking like a green cousin It.