Thread: Fallow Bucks getting hard?

Originally Posted by whanahuia

Pretty much agree. Except for the Carbon clown bit.

From what I have seen these people had the foresight to see an opportunity and have or will do very well out of it. Good on them! They started in an unknown business and took a risk that could have turned out badly like any other person starting a new venture.

My criticism lays solely on the Govt who did not have the foresight to do this in a constructive manor. - lets presume, no matter what your personnel opinions are for a moment for the sake of what im going to say, that Carbon forestry is needed to tackle climate change. Whether it is or not is irrelevant as thats the course the world seems to have decided on.

Ok, so we have the situation where lack of foresight has created mega large companies owning hundreds of thousands of hectares of land have planted trees that may well mean that land never earns this country money. Instead its possible/likely going to end up severely reducing or closing down communities as family farms shut down and people move away and there is long term no employment. Which in turn will effect the small towns as there is less to be spent in agricultural service industries.
All the while indicating that you will be creating more regulation and disincentive to farmers in an effort to reduce their carbon outputs etc. which leads many of us to consider leaving.
Would it not have been better for the govt to supply no interest loans to those family farms to cover them setting up and think about areas of thier land that could be better used in carbon forestry themselves, while maintaining the better productive land in agricultural production. By year 12 that loan will be repaid and the communities would still exist.

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