> Really depends on location and crop type. Great point; around me they let the small fields on the hills go back to forest and stopped building little dams. C

> Really depends on location and crop type. Great point; around me they let the small fields on the hills go back to forest and stopped building little dams. Can still find traces of the horse drawn plowed fields, further up the hills, where they turned furrows to be terraces. Those last got plowed 100+ yr ago in some cases and now stand out from the gullies below them.