GENERAL NOTICE TO CONTROL NOXIOUS WEEDS

March 6, 2024

GENERAL NOTICE TO CONTROL NOXIOUS WEEDS

The Kansas Noxious Weed Law K.S.A. 2-1314 et. Seq. requires all persons who own or supervise land in Kansas to control and eradicate all weeds declared noxious by legislative action. The weeds declared noxious are: field bindweed, leafy spurge, hoary cress, quackgrass, Russian knapweed, kudzu, and pignut. 

Notice is hereby given pursuant to the Kansas Noxious Weed Law to every person who owns or supervises land in Unified Greeley County that noxious weeds growing or found on such land shall be controlled or eradicated. Control is defined as preventing the production of viable seed and the vegetative spread of the plant. 

Failure to observe this notice may result in the County:

Serving a legal notice requiring control of the noxious weeds within a minimum of five days. Failure to control the noxious weeds within the time period allowed may result in the county treating the noxious weeds at the landowner’s expense and placing a lien on the property if the bill is not paid within 30 days or, 

Filing criminal charges for non-compliance. Conviction for non-compliance may result in a fine of $100 per day of non-compliance with a maximum fine of $1,500.

The public is also hereby notified that is a violation of the Kansas Noxious Weed Law to barter, sell, or give away infested nursery stock or livestock feed unless the feed is fed on the farm where grown or sold to a commercial processor that will destroy the viability of the noxious weed seed. Custom harvesting machines must be labeled with a label provided by the Kansas Department of Agriculture and must be free of all weed seed and litter when entering the State and when leaving a field infested with noxious weeds. Additional information may be obtained from the Unified Greeley County Noxious Weed Department or by contacting the Kansas Department of Agriculture, 1320 Research Park Drive, Manhattan, KS 66502.