Identify bushes and berries growing on the farm

Big 86 · Oct 19, 2019

Got some bushes with berries growing around the farm, would like help identifying what species they are. Pretty sure they are nuisance and need to be dealt with. Taking over the edges of the fields. Some pictures:

Saw some pics on the net calling these honeysuckle bushes. Is this correct? Poisonous to animals or livestock?

glennster · Oct 19, 2019

honeysuckle. birds eat the berries. its an invasive. pull it out roots and all to get rid of it.

Adirondack case guy · Oct 19, 2019

It is terrible stuff. Takes over a fence line in short order and as said the birds plant it everywhere.
Loren

Traditional Farmer · Oct 19, 2019

Doesn't look like the Honeysuckle in my area,whatever it is it looks like good Winter food for birds and other wildlife.Leave it alone unless you're one of those fanatics that thinks the only thing that deserves to live on Planet Earth is GMO corn and Soybeans.

glennster · Oct 19, 2019

here is the link it is amur honeysuckle an invasive that will take over. like kudzu, palmer amaranth, poison hemlock and canada thistle they dont belong and very difficult to control.
poke here

Adirondack case guy · Oct 19, 2019

That stuff is a GMO. It is genetically altered in a birds gut and then it gets delivered with it's own fertilizer package.------------Loren

Gambles · Oct 19, 2019

We?ve got that growing on our river banks.
It takes over fast. Get rid of it.

jeffcat · Oct 19, 2019

Hold on..this is honeysuckle. Yellow or
pink flowers that are nice and sweet. Grows
like crazy and takes over everything. That
red stuff I think is hawthorn. My dad
planted some years ago and had to use
Tordon to eradicate the blasted stuff.
Birds spread it everywhere they poop. Also
coons. Their poop out by the back of a
neighbors last week.

db4600 · Oct 19, 2019

Current Bush. Looks like 220/50.

ohiojim · Oct 20, 2019

i don't know what it is, but it's not honeysuckle..

Traditional Farmer · Oct 20, 2019

If you want to get rid of all the non native so called invasive plants and animals in the USA you got a long list starting with all breeds of cattle.most sheep and goats,wheat,
Barley,Emmer,Spelt,Pheasants,Honey Bees we raise domestically and of course anything GMO,all hybrids of anything,breeds of dogs and cats from all over the World.Got quite a job
to do(LOL)

caterpillar guy · Oct 20, 2019

Looks like choke cherries to me. Was always told they were poisonous. Then I hear about choke cherry wines jellies and such so could not say on that part.

teddy52food · Oct 20, 2019

Not chokecherries.

Dave H (MI) · Oct 20, 2019

Honey suckle can be a vine or a shrub...different things. There are also different varieties. That is amur honeysuckle. Doesn't look much from the leaf like the others but once you smell the blooms in Spring you will know what it is. I cut it down when it gets to be a nuisance but otherwise it is a pretty plant. Seems like birds would like the berries.

Ellis Kinney · Oct 20, 2019

It is bush honeysuckle. It will almost turn into trees if you don't control it. It is an invasive species that will take over in fields if not mowed
regularly, and will grow quick even in shaded woods. I have been clearing my woods a little at a time for 5 years and now have it almost entirely eradicated.
RoundUp at 3 oz./gallon sprayed heavy will do the trick. Do not expect immediate results, it takes about 8 to 10 days. It won't look dead but if you kick the
bush the leaves fall off. Also, if you cut it with a chain saw or ax, keep a squirt can of full strength RoundUp and squeeze a little on the freshly cut
stump. Ellis

Big 86 · Oct 20, 2019

Thanks for all the responses. I had been looking at pics on the net showing various species and could not quite identify what this was. The suggestions offered leads me to believe this is amur honeysuckle, just some of the pics on the net look different than what I am seeing on the farm. The pics of the bushes flowered out didn't seem to match up, probably because I did not see them before they put on berries.

Big 86 · Oct 20, 2019

Thanks glennster! The pics I found on the net of amur honeysuckle look almost exactly like what is growing on the farm. Not able to get at some of these plants to pull them, so the chainsaw and sprayer will have to suffice.

Big 86 · Oct 20, 2019

Dave H (MI),

Appreciate the info. Wasn't around much this spring, so didn't get to see this stuff flowered out. Some of the pics on the net looked a bit different, maybe because they were taken in a different region than I am in. Some of this has grown to the point it is almost like a tree.

Big 86 · Oct 20, 2019

Ellis Kenney,

What you are describing is almost exactly what is going on here. Taking up the fence rows and around the edges of fields. Some areas inside the timber line are much worse, almost can't walk through. Plan is to get out chainsaw and hand sprayer, cut it off near the ground and spray stumps to prevent regrowth. Looking through the directions on several products I have on hand, I believe I have something that will stop this. Probably going to use Crossbow, mixing exactly as directions say.

Big 86 · Oct 20, 2019

Traditional Farmer,

I understand your thoughts on this. Don't like to remove or destroy native vegetation if possible. However, this stuff is getting out of control and is not native to the area. Probably won't remove it all or at once, some areas could have soil erosion if not carefully dealt with. Would prefer not to use chemicals, but once removed I don't want it back.

Too many nuisances on the farm already, found several honey locust trees with their wonderful thorn filled branches while mowing the other day. Yesterday the darned asian beetles showed up. Grrr!

Traditional Farmer · Oct 21, 2019

Personally I don't see the big thing about non native species all my chickens,ducks,geese,Chinese Chestnut trees,cows,goats,apples,Honey Bees and probably other things are not native to my area.Be a pretty barren farm without them.Also enjoy a lot of different wildlife around, I have grown up thickets up to a 100ft wide a long the state road and some woods on my farm.No one comes thru those thickets on my farm to steal things or other mischief(LOL).It's all in what a person enjoys.I wouldn't give 2 cents to own some of these grain farms with hundreds of acres of corn/beans and no place for wildlife.

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