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Question about dairy calves.
"BAC" wrote in message ... I don't think I have missed the point. Yes, landowners own land in order to use it, and, I guess from your remarks, you mean use it for a financial gain. Hence, the use to which they wish to put it has to be one they are confident will be profitable. I don't believe that wholesale upland conifer planting would fit that particular bill. For example, the 1998 Bell Ingram study for the forestry commission suggested that, without grants, Douglas fir plantations generated the highest internal rate of return, at 2.82 % - hardly an attractive investment and perhaps the reason standing timber values have dropped so much over the past few decades. OTOH, doing relatively inexpensive things which attract grant income (which includes some things beloved to conservationists, like removing deer fences) and sporting uses, e.g. deer stalking, etc., are more attractive. Alternatively, if no viable commercial use is found, the landowner might be better off cutting his losses and investing elsewhere, with the consequence the land will probably be considered worthless and left to its own devices, as used to happen to disused quarries, etc. abandoned land tends to get used, tyre dumps and other such uses come to mind. Not only that but there are so many people out there with uses for land now, 4x4 tracks, paint ball, somewhere to leave heavy vehicles, park carvans when they are not being used. Land further from towns will have less uses, but what you must remember is that people already own the land. To say that they will get a better return by cutting their losses presupposes someone will buy it off them. For someone to buy it off them, that person has to see a return. So what you are more likely to see is the land remaining in the ownership of someone who plants trees, or does 4x4 courses or runs hill sheep, whichever enables them to make a living Jim Webster |
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