Kudzu

SUNUP's Clinton Griffiths visits southeastern Oklahoma to learn about a predator that is threatening to overtake everything in its path, Kudzu.

[@pamelacorona3665]

I just watched a video of people who had this problem, they sent in the GOATS 🌿🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐

[@HAL-dm1eh]

came here from the goat video too expecting to see the "goat solution" that never came. lol

[@wackyrice1]

I certainly hope you have shifted from "spraying" to 'goating'. Buy em, graze em, sell em. There is a prime market for goat meat, and they give you fertilizer, and milk too, if you wanna go that way. Excellent info on the history of the stuff, thank you.

[@katd349]

you could also find a way to get helium to its roots.

[@loismaddux4800]

w rice what about droppings? Will kudzu sprout from digested seeds or goat poo??

[@atomicwedgie8176]

@@loismaddux4800 Goat digestion renders all seeds sterile.

[@jamesshanks2614]

When goats eat kudzu their eating motion kills all the seeds so no more new plants. It will take using goats three or four years before the kudzu stops coming back. My neighbor has been using goats on his 90 acres and has seen a recession of kudzu on his property of 80 percent and plans on keeping goats as a means of keeping it well under control. Buy goats all you need is to provide water and an open sided shed plus food for the winter. Once the growing season stars the four legged all terrain eating machines will keep it down to manageable length with no chemicals required.

[@josebenitez3732]

Spraying is wrong for so many reasons. GOATS, GOATS, GOATS!!!

[@blackbiker1961]

Won't this vine grow back even if the goats, eat it?

[@bigboybuilder]

i will use the strongest herbicide i can buy

[@josebenitez3732]

@@bigboybuilder what kind of flowers do you like?

[@bigboybuilder]

don't care for flowers@@josebenitez3732

[@jonallie1117]

People can eat most of the Kudzu Plant and goats really love to eat it. Japanese prepare and eat this plant so bring in some Japanese to teach Americans how to process this plant for food and herbal medeicines

[@onlyhis5870]

Much appreciated, thank you!

[@noiboongtien4569]

In Vietnam, my family has cultivated this tree for many years, we often use their roots to extract a powder (Kudzu power), this power is very good for health. especially for people with diabetes, cardiovascular.

[@mariachrominska890]

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[@eScential]

​@@mariachrominska890kudzu is antidipsotropic. Perhaps you have a metabolic mutation?

[@danielgrubb9668]

Grind the roots into flour. It’s a superfood. You’ll never starve.

[@TheGuyMullins]

There is not a moments rest with KUDZU...

[@ZenithAstrology]

Wow those are tough plants and creepy the way they spring up after you cut them in pieces.

[@stevewilliams3850]

Kudzu can grow three feet in twenty-four hours.

[@stevewilliams3850]

SUNUPTV : Kudzu is choking the State of Alabama to death.

[@dangrimes5078]

I guess goats aren't an answer because they only eat what is above ground and it will just come right back.

[@ericpattersonk8eep953]

Yes goats goats goats.

[@1PunchKO100]

Well it stops you drinking so it's not that bad.

[@julienrockingham7162]

salt and oil?

[@dandavatsdasa8345]

Great Information! Seems like a terrible prospect for homesteaders! Do you feel that the Ozone produced by kudzu has affected anyone's lungs while out in those fields? I was wondering how well kudzu can serve as food for humans. Perhaps the Kudzu has more potential as food during times of severe starvation than grass. There is information claiming that kudzu can serve as a healing herb even for liver trouble. My educated guess is to destroy kudzu by bull dozing. Glyphosate just pollutes everything and everyone. Otherwise keep all kudzu thoroughly harvested for fodder or put different types of goats or sheep on it. Conceivably it is probably necessary to bull doze a path around certain areas of land to install good barbwire fencing to keep the goats in. Thank you for sharing informative videos!

[@katd349]

its actually the vine that swallowed the south, not 'strangeled'.

[@moomoo3031]

How is it controlled in the places it came from? I remember my high school biology teacher telling us about kudzu - fertilize it with crankcase oil and mulch it with cinder blocks, haha. He also told us not to sleep in it cuz it would suck all the oxygen out of the air and you would die. WTF! 55 yrs later, I just realized he was wrong? Backasswards! I remember driving thru Mississippi, all these fields covered with kudzu, and the vines covering trees...so many dinosaurs and giraffes and cow shapes, a Kudzu Zoo!

[@Grace9918]

Hi, I heard that a lot of people use Kudzu to make tea and vegetables as Kudzu has a lot of vitammins. Some farmers use it to feed livestock. With all the draughts in the United States it could still help provide food for the needy. We should send some to Africa. People are dying for lack of food.

[@bobhart677]

No one is starving because there isn't enough food. People in third world hell holes are starving because other people want them too.

[@brucethomas3100]

Sabine Neubauer I hear folks are hungry but have you ever eaten any Kudzu? Do you know of any recipes containing Kudzu? I know it's been a day or two since you posted your comment but hopefully you have found some recipes to share with everyone.

[@mikeeckard2508]

I hate Kudzu. Why would anyone bring it here. In North Carolina mountains, it actually killes trees and causes erosion.

[@2cents368]

Start a goat farm,...….. problem solved

[@PlanoPrincess]

This stuff is HORRIBLE! I just bought a property and it killed a 30 ft pine tree and has wrapped itself around all the other trees near by. I will be spending all winter trying to get rid of it. Thanks for the video. Now I know the name of it. ~ New to Georgia

[@jamesshanks2614]

The number one killer of kudzu is goats. Buy yourself a several goats and there favorite food is kudzu, the love to eat it and you will be amazed at how they eat it. Raise goats as goat meat seriously is the new oil. Seriously you will learn to love raising goats for two things, one they will over three to four years will eradicate the kudzu from your property. Think I'm kidding? Search on KZbin for goats that eat weeds, be prepared to be amazed.

[@McFlySwatter]

@Buddy Wiser A sixth grader in Ga figured out years ago how to get rid of it with helium. kzbin.info/www/bejne/omiwd41nqaqnmrc

[@HAL-dm1eh]

Didn't Steven King make a movie about this or something. I can see why if something like this was his inspiration

[@kevinolesik1500]

Creepshow #3 ... he also stars in it

[@breaynecooper323]

KUDZU the movie In theaters this summer

[@fred7159]

Well leave it to the United States government of Agriculture to mess everything up

[@cattlecorner305]

Goat's is the answer...

[@thomasmleahy6218]

Ya mean goats are the answer? I've seen multiple trees in the forest preserves near Broadview and LaGrange Illinois completely covered up to 30 - 40 ft high. I wonder if those vines are Kudzu.

[@lazaruslee9505]

If you can't win over Kudzu use them. Surely you are not NUMDSKULL. ARE YOU????? SURE ?????.

[@ericphelps1796]

I just got some in the mail today going to put my kudzu on 🍕pizza 🍕😋it's very very good

[@greenearthnazi20204u]

@4evermuslimgirl all biomass can used as fuel .

[@peaceandlove5214]

I see it as beautiful plant.

[@TheMidasMD]

Set in Goats and Pigs, nothing will be left in 30 days.

[@cidcampeador1952]

GOATS AND CHEEP . . .

[@5stardave]

Kudzu the plant kingdom's equivalent of European humans.

[@kenzienichole2641]

Good idea, but it would cause a 'wild-fire' because of how much land and space it covers. :/ Goooood Idea tho.

[@FidelityElectric]

Feed it to your animals they will eat it with gusto...

[@SlySly741]

Calling it a weed doesn't change the fact that it's an excellent nitrogen fixing forage crop. Despite the benefits to the ecosystem, here it requires humans to Shepard it.

[@horseradish7105]

🤧

[@jamestarter9818]

I would love to have that on my property

[@v.britton4445]

Goats Stop using poison

[@blaaq360]

Maybe they should get some goats....

[@Protactiny]

Goats will do the job 😍

[@13Grampster]

Google helium and kudzu...

[@skyangel6336]

Ignoring is not a solution Knowledge needed... I can tell you You don't want Kudzu It's taken over here in AL.Save the Trees and Get some goats and attack aggressively....It's edible BTW Roots and Leaves

[@maryannmeasmer9455]

Get some goats, they love it.

[@centuryfiles9558]

People keep saying “eat it!” But kudzu is such a nuisance it’s become disgusting to think of eating this horrible, horrible weed.

[@iskkarate]

they should sell it in tablet form or something

[@coldshot5555]

they do...

[@pamelahomeyer748]

Helium in the ground kills the Kudzu and keep the rest of the plants okay

[@horseradish7105]

Huh?

[@unkjason]

She is right helium kills kudzu, and doesn't effect many other plants.

[@bigboybuilder]

there is even a patent (may still be pending) covering helium used on it....

[@karolkupec2044]

Grate medicinal plant for humans and animals, it is not a problem, goats 🐐 will gladly eat it. Highly valued in oriental medicine.

[@MrRocco_]

I have wysteria instead of kudzu

[@Cookie54ize]

pizzas 6068 Trumpet vine

[@billydamnit]

Keep it away from your foundation

[@kevinolesik1500]

drag the ground with harrows , Collect and burn it

[@stevewilliams3850]

Wysteria is just as bad.

[@greenearthnazi20204u]

PEOPLE ARE CRAZY , Kudzu. CAN BE USED IN LOTS OF WAYS .

[@brucethomas3100]

@Fredc Killian Hey, that's a good idea, we can all spray it in his yard with Miracle Grow!

[@horseradish7105]

Yeah, take Buddy's advice. Plant some!

[@shanecorning5222]

AIN'T no "weed" !!!!!!!!! READ ? .. .... .... hahahahahahaa. "TCM". "Traditional Chinese Medicine".

[@shanecorning5222]

YOU'RE Just not using it.

[@horseradish7105]

Moron.

[@ericphelps1796]

I eat my thistle😊❤

[@keisi1574]

These people are cool with spraying toxic herbicides BUT NOT cool with growing a wonderful, amazing and extremely useful plant...I can't believe we share the world with people like this. It hurts my heart and hurts my brain.

[@horseradish7105]

Hey asswipe! Come to Tennessee and learn something!

[@elguapolegendariocasanova5615]

Stop the got damn whining and eat it for some greens. It's like protein rich spinach and it's **FREE** I'd love to have some but don't want the snakes around my kids and pets .

[@elyserva7903]

People get a scythe and start the exercise. Eating it is healthy too! 😁😁😁

[@jeanyockle5739]

it's only a problem for lazy people

[@horseradish7105]

You are insane.