What a load!
It's the Lone Ranger's fault!
Tonto (the Native American) warned him!
Yet another bunch of pointy heads who think they should be in charge of nature. Seeds getting spread through animal manure IS nature. They should just deal with the fact.
Dont worry, we dont need money for important things, say, cancer research or something, so lets investigate horse $hit instead. great.
Birds will eat seed from horse turds. Send me my 100K now.
This Spring, we had nasty weeds in and around that lantern that were foreign to our yard.
My husband swears they came from the Straw bale. Who knows?
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The main weed I'm worried about is Goatheads! It's the spawn of Satan! Keep yer horses outta my garden! :)
Progressives are inordinately preoccupied with the southbound end of northbound farm animals, aren't they? Farts, cow patties, horse puckey ... what's next, urine as "art?" Oops, too late.
Sorry folks there is no question at all this happens. I put moo doo in gardens and I get weeds out of it. The question is why do we need to spend money to study this when anybody should know it happens.
By the way, if the government wants something to do, tell them to check a fence line and see if birds are sitting on it. Then they should check back to see if something grew where the bird took a dump. Just don't pay them to do so.
We spend $100K to determine this? I and any farmer who plowed with mules or horses could have answered that question for free! Yes, they do. But they have to eat the seeds from whatever they're fed to do it.
Can't have common citizens on horse back enjoying their forests.
We all know how this study is going to turn out.
Do they make pooper-scoopers for horses?
One hundred thousand dollars?
THAT is a pile of horse manure.
If horses weren't vegetarians, this would not be happening. We need to train them to eat hamburgers (NO sesame seed buns), fries, and chocolate shakes so they can dump seedless crap.
Well, at least this time they're admitting they're wasting tax dollars on pure horse sh*t. I don't know how sewer plants work now days, but not that long ago the prettiest tomato plants in town were popping up on their own in the brown stuff. Break up any cow patty and it's full of seeds. Duh, everyone knows birds help "move" vegetation around the world.
I blame the birds.
Thats a no brainer. You alway put a certain amount of grass seed in the horse feed to help reseed the pasture.
Horse crap is left in a pile for a year. During that time the crap goes thru a heat , it gets warm , The warmth kills the seeds, If you use it before it is cured it will get you weeds. Everyone knows that.
By the way when they used treated sewage from Blue Plains treatment plant around the beltway Tomatoes,cucumbers, watermelons and a lot of other things were growing the next summer. People were stopping and picking the fruit. So Yes seeds go thru humans too.