Originally Posted by
hifi_dave
All around here - North Essex, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, the farmers have been digging out the hedgerows. Everywhere we travel, the fields have become prairies and I'm not a fan. I miss the hedgerows and worried about what it's doing to the wildlife and to the water table, with nothing left to soak up heavy rain.
This afternoon, I made a 20 mile trip to Cambridge with the majority of the journey along country roads. It was very apparent, that where the hedgerows were missing, the snow was all across the roads. Wherever the hedgerows and trees were still standing, the snow was only in the fields, where it should be.
To my mind, that is one very good reason to maintain the hedgerows but the farmers are intent on digging them out and chopping down the trees. I have been told that it is an EEC thing, where farmers get subsidies for this work but it flies in the face of everything 'green'. I have read many articles and seen several programmes on the TV, where farmers are encouraged to plant hedgerows and wild plants to build up the wildlife. So why are they cutting it all down ?
I too thought that farmers found hedges useful, if at least for boundaries.up hear in Yorkshire they seem to take care of them and up in the lakes where we often visit they seem to too. It's odd they're destroying them down in Suffolk, a huge farming area,.
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