Don't know your part of the country so it might be different there. But here, if we do not mow something it turns into brush and shrubs in ten years and a forest by 20 years.
So for us it is pay me now or pay me later. If we let something grow up that we did not want to grow up, we spend big money with a dozer in twenty years to clean it back up. If we keep it mowed or otherwise maintained, it costs us something every year we maintain it, but no large cost down the road.
I suspect in drier climates things are different. But anything we don't mow, spray, cut, burn or otherwise maintain turns to forest. If we are good with forest eventually being there, we let it go. Or sometimes if we just don't get around to doing all we need to, we let it go anyway. Then the next generation gets to worry about it.
We have bought and rented several farms that were let go that we have cleaned back up with a dozer. Working on one right now.
