Farm Forestry at Scotland’s Finest Wood Awards

摘要

Farming and forestry can be uneasy bedfellows. Scottish politician and farmer, Peter Chapman, once said he thought planting trees was seen by many farmers as a failure of their business model - and that he was determined to help change that.Confor and its members talk regularly to farmers about the benefits of diversifying a farm business with trees. Ultimately, the decision to plant - or to make existing woodland more useful, or to expand it -depends on the individual farm business. The reasons for doing so will be specific to that farm.