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| We have been browsing real estate looking for a larger piece of acreage. We had found acreage that was a tree farm (well still is, the trees would need to be removed). Unless it was completely organic, which I am sure it is not, my concern would be was residual chemicals may be in the soil from spraying the trees. Anyone have any experience with something like this? |
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Location: sunny california | some trees can be a problem for horses like walnuts and drupes ( cherries/plums) i am sure there are more |
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| I should have specified, it is a christmas tree farm so they are all spruce. We currently live on a property that had been a tree farm, white pines, but that was 19 years before we bought the place. |
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| If it was sprayed with a herbicide, those neutralize within a short period of time. |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | Get you a soil test kit and send it off for analysis. |
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Location: North Central Iowa Land of white frozen grass | Anything that they sprayed last year is gone by now. Point Blank. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | BS Hauler - 2017-03-31 7:11 AM Anything that they sprayed last year is gone by now. Point Blank.
This.
I would not be worried one bit. Get a soil sample just to ease your mind. But you should be perfectly fine. |
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  Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | Your worst problem will be leg-sized holes when the trunks rot. |
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| A friend of mine bought a property and had all of her horses start getting central nervous system problems (wobblers, neurological issues, narcolepsy, etc.) and when they tested her soil it was full of chemicals. She found out that the property had been an orchard 15 years prior and there were still lots of toxic chemicals in the soil.
She moved.
Depending on the chemical it can stay in the ground for years.
Get the soil tested - in more than one place on the property. |
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Horse property on old tree farm