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Thanks for your email regarding the concerns you have about your neighbor's tree. Our suggestions are to: • Have a qualified person look at the tree and give their professional assessment on its condition and potential risk to you and your property. We recommend using an ISA Certified Arborist. Here is a link to more information: www.treesaregood.org/findanarborist/findanarborist. If there is a cost, the neighboring property owner may be willing to chip in or at least share in those costs. • Learn who is the owner of your neighbor's property. We suggest using the Tennessee Property Viewer to research who owns the vacant property. Send the property owner a certified letter that alerts them to your concerns, include images, and ask them to address any issues. If you have a lawyer, that person can help you with your letter. • If limbs are touching utilities, you may be able to find some relief through the utility company. They could trim away the offending branches around your lines. your circumstances. Some are willing to spec so much time/funds per year for folks in need. • Also, the local fire departments sometimes are looking for reasons to practice their chainsaw skills for storm events. If all else fails, a local church or outreach group might be willing to help if the need is dire. Here is a publication that further explains homeowner rights regarding trees and neighboring properties: extension.tennessee.edu/publications/Documents/SP687.pdf. We hope this is useful.

Can you move your cattle to fresh Pasture before it gets that short? How well is it currently recovering? Those are just questions that I hope will somehow help you. I'm afraid I don't have any real world experience that would give me any real solutions. I'm just hoping my questions will help somebody with more knowledge to come up with a solution.

Hi Matthew, thank you for reaching out. Dr. Mercker says suckers are produced by woody plants when they have undergone stress or injury. These stresses could be a result of: hard freeze, cut down or excessive pruning, top death due to insects or diseases, herbicides or more. While the top is dying-back, energy is being redirected from the top limbs to the new sprouts (suckers). Homeowners can allow the top to completely die, then remove dead branches. Allow the suckers to grow and be sure to keep the shrub/tree watered during the first growing season. New foliage is rapidly needed to photosynthesize and thereby “feed” the roots. If it is a tree, then in the winter following re-sprouting, favor the strongest sprout and remove the others. If it is a shrub, then many sprouts may be desirable. I hope this helps!

Bermuda is a tough customer. For small plots it can be dug rhizomes and all, filtered by one’s fingers, which gets old fast. Pastures? Bring out the big guns.

@@chucktaylor4958 it may be the only way on large scale. It is just unfortunate how much Bermuda has invaded the US southeast

@@GarrettXHolder it is.

This is stupidity on the part of presenters. Weeds come in for a reason. They are pioneers that reclaim degraded soil. The enemy is monocropping, even if they are native grasses. Soil health is the best deterence against weeds, as poor condition soil is also where disease, pests, etc reside. Soil health comes with polycropping. Managing with livestock is better. If the one of the toxic plants are present, as some types of pigweed are, there are soil scientists like Elaine Ingham that can assist with correcting soil to deter the offenders. Livestock do better on diverse fields, needing less intervention. Additionally the soil uses less water when there is more soil diversity, rather than m9nocropped grass or crops.

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Sacrifice Lots/Pastures.

graze it down hard

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Thanks for your comment. I know of Alan Savory but have not followed his work closely. Grasslands do have the capacity to sequester large amounts of carbon. In fact, they represent one of the largest pools on the planet. Estimates of just how much this can be influenced by management needs to be better documented with good studies. In any case, changes in total soil carbon will not change overnight, it is a slow and often complex process. - Pat Keyser

Very high gains in carrying capacity - in this case, a 10-fold increase from 200 acres per cow to 20 acres per cow - are achievable when the starting condition of land is highly degraded. Regenerative rancher Alejandro Carrillo is using Holistic Planned Grazing to restore grassland to sections of the Chihuahuan “Desert”receiving less than 10” (25 cm) of rain year. Grassfed Exchange 2019 - Alejandro Carrillo April 5, 2019, 26 mins. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q8tmn7pexpizeqc.html

Use of a grazing plan to track rainfall, temperature, plant growth rate, animal life cycles, etc., enables higher productivity, better profitability, and greater carbon sequestration. How We Plan Our Grazing - Richard Perkins Filling in a Holistic Planned Grazing chart (2020, 1 hr. 21 mins.) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qLVnq89q0ZO9gqc.html

carbon is irrelevant

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