We offer livestock farmers effective solutions to manage encroaching flora on their farms, helping them retain more grazing pasture for their animals.
Terravusa’s selective herbicides offer game farmers a safe and effective way to manage encroaching flora on their land.
Encroaching flora refers to alien and indigenous plant species that aggressively encroaches and dominate the local ecosystem. These species can have a significant impact on the pasture (grazing availability) of farms, leading to reduced productivity in grazing animals and even health problems for the animals. Encroaching flora can outcompete other plant species for resources such as water, nutrients, and sunlight, leading to a reduction in biodiversity and changes in the soil quality. Encroaching plants may also have allelopathic effects, producing chemicals that inhibit the growth of other plants, leading to an overall decrease in plant diversity.
The impact of encroaching flora on livestock and game farms can be significant, with reduced forage quality and quantity, leading to lower animal productivity and weight gain.
Controlling encroaching flora is vital to maintain the health and productivity of farms. The control methods vary depending on the species and its location, and the degree of infestation. Common control methods include mechanical removal, herbicide applications, and prescribed burning. However, preventative measures such as early detection, rapid response, and good pasture management practices are the most effective long-term control strategies to control the encroachment of encroaching flora on livestock and game farms.
Mezavue 250 EW has no negative impact on grass species, so natural grazing is not affected. In over-grazed area good grazing grasses returns very quickly after application, as the dead trees do not use the available water and nutrients in the soil anymore.
Mezavue 250 EW has been tested on various encroacher tree species as well, and has registered well on predominantly encroacher species on thorny tree species such as Sickle bush, Black thorn, and Sweet thorn very effectively.
Mezavue 250 EW also controls a broad spectrum of broad-leaved trees such as Mopane, Grewia species, Terminalia species and others effectively, but has not been registered on these species yet.
The active ingredients are not harmful to people or animals – it only contains synthetic plant hormones.
Trees that remain in peripheral infestation areas that are not feasible to treat aerially can easily be controlled by means of knapsack sprayer application of Mezavue 250 EW, ensuring further work creation for rural communities.
The dead tree material can be harvested two years after application – therefore work creation is stimulated in rural areas through guaranteed harvesting of safe firewood for resale.
Cattle and game in the areas of application do not need to be removed prior to application.
Trees that remain in peripheral infestation areas that are not feasible to treat aerially can easily be controlled by means of knapsack sprayer application of Sendero.
Sendero 336 SL has no negative impact on grass species, so natural grazing is not affected. In over-grazed area good grazing grasses returns very quickly after application, as the dead trees do not use the available water and nutrients in the soil anymore.
Sendero 336 SL has been tested on various encroacher tree species as well, and has registered well on predominantly encroacher species on thorny tree species such as Sickle bush, Black thorn, and Sweet thorn very effectively.
