I have noticed a lot of land clearing between Coleraine and Ballarat. There's the farm just before Hamilton on the left when approaching from Coleraine. Wher they have cut down numerous trees. All non native but I've noticed that nothing is being planted to replace them. This farmer is a ploughing freak. So firmly rooted to antiquated practices. They also have sheep and it really boils my blood when sheep have no shade. When any stock have the option they seek shade when it's hot and sunny. It should be illegal to not provide shade
The main prob re over supply of BG's around here was greed, too many trees planted, not enough being felled as China etc. had wayyyy too much wood chip .... Then a cpl of the bigger BG Co' s went belly up, so no one to fell and onsell the trees/chip etc ... All added up to one HUGE prob with no easy solution
Koalas are an introduced species on Kangaroo island and as such should be removed. I know people absolutely lose it when it is mentioned but they simply don't belong there
The main prob re over supply of BG's around here was greed, too many trees planted, not enough being felled as China etc. had wayyyy too much wood chip .... Then a cpl of the bigger BG Co' s went belly up, so no one to fell and onsell the trees/chip etc ... All added up to one HUGE prob with no easy solution
The reason too many blue gums went in all around the country was that the Government provided huge incentive payments to companies to plant them through MIS schemes. Managed Investment Schemes gave wealthy investors huge upfront tax right offs on the lifetime establishment and management costs of the plantations. Basically the whole blue gum thing was just a great big tax dodge and had nothing to do with forestry, the environment or carbon abatement.
Actually the reason Blue Gum farms were established was for paper production to be from sustainable means rather than cutting down old growth forests. The tax dodge came along because of capatilist greed. Which perverts all human activity
The thing that annoys me about agriculture is the greed of the middle man. While some farmers are doing it really tough the greedy use the demand to increase profits. I know that demand always determines prices but can't there be some compassion. Aren't they all in the same game. The public is being scammed when they start paying for hay and grain via donations. These commodities are very expensive now and a group of greedy people are rolling in the cash because they gave what others most desperately need. Personally I don't donate any money I've worked as a farm hand. When the farmers I've worked for have a bad season I'd be sitting at home not getting any money. No one gives extra hand outs for the farm employees. It's just stiff sh*t The farmers felt bad for me but no one else does and that's the same for everyone that works on farms. No one is on TV crying for the employee or doing charity drives. To make things worse because you end up relying on Newstart you are then put under the extra pressure of applying for ten jobs a fortnight when jobs are being shred because of the lack of money flowing. The Government knows the whole situation but there's no relief for ud poor saps just extra victimisation. Then you also face the scorn of those who are in front of the supermarket with their requests for donations to the farmers. So you have to avoid them or give money when you have even less just to not look like an uncaring pos There's just no equality of empathy. Especially not from the heartless moron Scott
I could be wrong but I believe that particular farm has been replanted with a superior strain of Blue gums. I saw the crew when they were replanting. At least that's what it looked like they were doing
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