Is Milkweed Poisonous to Livestock? It Depends on Where It’s Growing
The corner had gone uncut for eleven years, and in July of a dry summer it got cut. A low back corner along the fence line, three acres of it, wet most springs and rough enough that the mower had always found a reason to turn before it got there. He never asked whether milkweed is poisonous to livestock. He’d have told you he had no cause to. The question got asked for him in January, by four bales sitting at the end of a row.