The border is roughly 50 yards long and I'm in zone 6 thanks

I like that idea. I was also kind of picturing plants in spaced out intervals too. Thanks

Near me, the power company did a planting of eastern red cedar spaced around the perimeter of a substation. When approaching from the east, you notice the trees before the substation and get the impression that you're coming up on a park, memorial garden, church yard or something of that nature, instead of a substation.It looks quite nice. And the trees themselves look nice.

If the farmer practices no-till and uses a 2,4-D based herbicide to burn down the weeds before planting, expect damage to anything planted close to the field. If the wind is blowing the right way you may get damage over your whole property.

I wouldn't use burning bush euonymus since it seeds around invasively in much of the country. I like the eastern red cedar suggestion (actually a juniper) if you don't have an apple orchard nearby or a crabapple in your own yard; if you do it's an alternate host for cedar apple rust and so will help spread the disease.

I also like the idea of forsythia.

One thing to think about is that this may alter how snow drifts across the driveway, depending on the wind direction and the amount of snow your area gets.

I did see a small amount of damage to my yard last year after the farmer sprayed but only a foot or so into the yard in some spots. I do have a young crab apple just on the opposite side of my yard and my neighbor has a apple/peach tree orchard also but he does have several cedar trees. I did see a house with a border of alternating redbuds and what looked to be some kind of cedar yesterday and it looked very nice but I believe the redbuds would eventually get too big.