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Janet wrote:
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says...
Since 'your' farmer is using noxious chemicals, I assume he's not
keeping cattle or other livestock(?)
so you could try Yew (Taxus
baccata) nearest his land. (Yew is poisonous, so you ought not to use it
near livestock).
That is extremely poor advice IMO. No farmer is going to welcome the
planting of a yew hedge on his boundary.
In later years the neighbour (or a different owner) may plant some crop
where livestock are turned in to forage the leftovers; or rotate the
land use to grazing pasture which he rents out.
It depends on how much of a Clue he has. Ones that know about
the actual risk (as distinct from the hysteria) won't care.
There is plenty of pasture with yew in their hedges, and I have
seen it growing as a tree in the middle of some.
The only real danger is if the yew is cut and left lying (because
it becomes slightly less bitter) and the stock don't have enough
good pasture or browsing. So it's the bad farmers that have the
trouble - and, of course, they are the ones that blame everything
except themselves.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.