perilla mint

Perilla mint poisoning of livestock worsens during drought

August 6, 2023 | By Linda Geist, University of Missouri Extension

COLUMBIA, Mo. — University of Missouri Extension specialists are getting reports of illness and death in cows and small ruminants that may have ingested perilla mint. Perilla mint, a toxic summer annual, is also known as rattlesnake weed, purple mint and beefsteak plant. Most healthy animals will eat around perilla mint if other more palatable…

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Plan to kill toxic perilla mint this spring or summer

January 2, 2022 | By LINDA GEIST, University of Missouri Extension

MOUNT VERNON, Mo. – University of Missouri Extension livestock specialist Eldon Cole said he received a report recently of cows in southwestern Missouri being killed by perilla mint, a toxic plant. Cole urges producers to plan to destroy the annual plant in pastures next spring or summer. Broadleaf pasture herbicides, applied April through June before…

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