I’ve just hung a new galvanised gate on concrete posts , and took delivery of 25 box barriers for strainers and soon to be putting up some clipex , I’m done with wood fencing it’s not up to the job no more and commercial forestry is a threat to my livelihood so I’m buggerd if I’m supporting that lot by buying wood.
Obviously I'm well aware of the friction...but i'll ask anyway.
Tell us, why is commercial forestry a threat to your livelihood?
Unless you're a tenant being squeezed out, or inundated with competition for land from those who have been.
Or it could be more insidious, with the damage to critical mass within farming?
The flipside is that we could embrace it, and work it into the livestock sector.
We're the odd ones out in europe for this deep division.
I'm quite at eases growing trees instead of (quite as many) yows....it's been a long time since they could do much more than break even, and the trees seldom stray far.