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Citation
(1999), "A killer on your building site?", Structural Survey, Vol. 17 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ss.1999.11017cab.001
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
A killer on your building site?
A killer on your building site?
Keywords Safety, Land
Are you harbouring a killer on your building site? This question is being posed this year by the County Landowners Association which, in conjunction with animal welfare organisations, is campaigning to raise awareness, and reduce the prevalence of, the Common Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea). Ragwort is an injurious weed, under the 1959 Weeds Act, and causes a slow and painful death of any livestock eating even small amounts of it. It often thrives on building sites or unused strips of land and producing 100,000 seeds per plant per year, it can rapidly spread to nearby agricultural land getting into hay crops or livestock pasture. Normally biennial, it can only be eradicated by spraying or digging out. For more information contact the CLA at 16 Belgravia Square, London SW1X 8PQ. Tel: 0171 235 0511; http://www.cla.org.uk