This is true, and all that cutting, trimming and stump removal can turn into a lot of work just to clear things back when this work is not done for years. It's a real pain to trim back all the branches from a woodline next to a field, ones that hang off older trees etc. A lot of the old fields still in use around here have been encroached on by the lack of doing this work over the years.
Most of the rented land does not get any attention to the hedgerows, and there is no doubt a cumulative loss of crop land when it all adds up. Critters love the overgrown areas here, just chock full of rabbits, deer, and quite a few grouse.
My neighbor spends a little time in the spring with the jd 3150 fwa and loader, pushing younger trees back, ones that are close to the edge of the field, even if just branches are in the way, to do a neater job, and let those trees like cherry and elm grow for firewood or future use, it's a lot of work, and at his age, just easier to push em back.
I've often wondered what was done to maintain them years back, all the hedgerows here are old property lines, old field/fence lines, with some real old trees, lot of old cherry, and other hardwoods, makes good firewood when they fall, just have to realize there will be barbed wire and fence staples or other metals in there, I try to use an old or getting worn out chain on the saw, though the old fence is usually so rusted, it just dulls the cutters more than damages them.
Some of the older fence lines are still in-tact, and remembering when I was a kid, every line, hedgerow, buffer area etc., was posted with locust posts and barbed wire around here, not so much in the mountains nearby, but around any crop land, you always had to deal with an old fence line, like 50+ years old back then, that locust sure stands the test of time, now there are remnants in areas, lot of it has finally come down from trees, branches and or age.
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