Tips for Controlling Weeds in Horse Pastures

Weed management in horse pastures requires time, dedication, and ongoing effort from farm owners, but it’s crucial for promoting healthy forage for horses to eat.
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Tips for Controlling Weeds in Horse Pastures
Maintain adequate leaf material in your pasture plants to not stress them to the point they die, which is when opportunistic weeds will take their place. In other words, don’t overgraze, said Kness. | Photo: iStock

Weed management in horse pastures is a constant process. It requires time, dedication, and ongoing effort from farm owners, but it’s crucial for promoting healthy forage for horses to eat.

To help property managers combat pasture weeds, Andy Kness, MS, agriculture educator for Harford County, Maryland, provided weed control tips during the University of Maryland Extension’s healthy horse-keeping webinar series.

The No. 1 rule to remember, he said, is a dense, healthy forage stand will naturally outcompete weeds. Your weed management program, however, “requires a comprehensive integrated approach,” he said. “No one single tool is going to do it for

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Alexandra Beckstett, Managing Editor of The Horse and a native of Houston, Texas, is a lifelong horse owner who has shown successfully on the national hunter/jumper circuit and dabbled in hunter breeding. After graduating from Duke University, she joined Blood-Horse Publications as Assistant Editor of its book division, Eclipse Press, before joining The Horse.

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