autumn olive?

autumn olive are new to me spreading over pasture ground. How do you deal with these bushes?

kill as many as you can as fast as you can. No matter how many times they are cut they always sprout back. Tordon 101 works good, & constant mowing. The thorns will flatten tractor tires quickly.

They aren't rooted very deep. You can push them out with a loader pretty easy.

They planted a bunch of those things at the hunt club here in north carolina when they use to raise and hunt quail . Those thing will take over everything in its path

Sheep and goats followed by a chainsaw or grubbing hoe.

I've started on the creek bed. Cut and put through chipper for later use as mulch. Once cut, I bush hog to keep them at bay. Doubt I'll ever eradicate them since adjacent property has lots and lots. I just insult them. Cr*p shrub.

Pennsylvania Game Commission planted them on purpose as cover for wild animals. Now they are considered by the state to be a noxious weed. Same thing with Russian Olive. Russian Olive is much more aggressive in my area.

I consider the Game Commission to be a noxious weed as well.

About 20-25 years ago, the soil conservation district made dad put them in as a windbreak to stay compatible with some CRP land he had. They were supposed to be amazing cover, food sources. Well, they do work wonders for cover, as they take over everything. I have rarely seen a bird eat the berries, unless it's bitter cold and there is nothing else. Fast forward to now, and the soil conservation district wantso you to let them know where they have spread to, and would like all of the area farmers to donate their time and equipment to remove them. Some if let get large enough, can be 20' tall, 20' wide bush, with numerous large trunks from one root. I have seen some with trunks 10-12" diameter. I have thousands of acres of wetland/state hunting land around me, and it is overrun with it. Dad bought 15 acres that was completely covered with it, huge ones, and with the 2 of us working at it with a backhoe and a skidsteer with forks, it took a 3 day weekend to completely clear it for farmland. Randy is right, if you push with a loader close to the ground on the trunk, it will slide the roots right out with minimal dirt. Dad used the forks on his skidsteer on the small ones. He would just spear the fork in the ground under it, and pop it out of the ground. If you mow them, they will come back year after year after year, unless the stump is sprayed in a timely fashion. When. I cut them at work when clearing road sides, I hit the stump with a bath of Pathfinder, they never come back.

I pushed my biggest ones over with a dozer. Roots are shallow but the rootball was 8 ft. high. Made big holes in the ground. Came back the next summer & push'em back upright & dirt filled the holes back in, then I dozed the wood into a pile.