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hopefull_farmer
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I don't no much about forestry but I have worked on a few farms and seen and I'd have to say forestry is the best way to go for them, it would be a better way for a owner to make a living off it, no point in only getting a first cut of silage in late July august and wrecking the place every year to get a few bails to feed a few cattle and using the SFP to pay for it makes no sense. Wouldn't be happy with good to average land been turned into forestry. But there will be some lads that will turn good enough land into forestry for easy money that don't have a interest in farming it, or with there own job don't have the time to farm it and don't want to sell it.
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forestry is more rewarding financially than any kind of beef farming if you take a five year income average , the opposition to forestry is idealogical , not saying its wrong to oppose it , its a big thing to say goodbye to a field of grass or a field of cattle if its all you have ever known
enviromentalism is a growing political force , i can see a situation where a carrot and stick approach is used more widely towards this country going forward , they will do more than try and persuade us to plant