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Monty Don: Gardeners' World host hits back at criticism for weighing in on farming debate

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Gardeners' World presenter, Monty Don, 65, has hit back at Twitter criticism after he weighed in on a farming debate and branded the agricultural practice of hedgerow cutting "disrespectful".The horticultural expert was told that he could only comment on the issue if he "became a farmer", to which the broadcaster pointed out that he has in fact been a farmer for nearly two decades.After retweeting a picture of a trimmed hedge, which one Twitter user described as "hedgerow savagery", Monty branded it "careless, so disrespectful and so stupid" for his 209,500 followers to see.But one user hit back at Monty's assertion that the cutting back of hedges, where wildlife live, was wrong.They simply wrote: "Become a farmer...then comment".However.

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