The British Horse Society welcomes a new initiative to develop a fungal mycoherbicide spray to wipe out Ragwort.

BHS Director of Welfare, Access and Safety Mark Weston represented the Society at a recent meeting with the Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux International (CABI), which was also attended by Natural England, the Highways Agency, and Network Rail.

CABI is proposing a three-phase project to fight the toxic weed–which kills horses–using a native fungus that destroys Ragwort. Alternative methods of control can harm the surrounding environment or actively encourage future Ragwort growth.

Landowners can lawfully be required to remove Ragwort from any land which is within 50 metres of land grazed by animals or used for producing animal forage. The BHS runs Ragwort campaigns to highlight the danger