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Planting spruce as a souce of fuel

locky76 · 2011-10-30 10:44:48

I've been considering buying a bit of land to plant with timber as a source of fuel, a bit of boggy land locally went recently for €2,200 an acre. My plan goes as follows: Buy 5 acres and plant with sitka spruce. Draw down the grant to get it planted (€20k) by greenbelt or someone like that. Use the annual grant of €850 to…

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#32 02-11-2011 10:41PM

locky76

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the land is at a small price as it doesn't have the critical mass to attract new buyers in and the people bounding the land aren't interested. It's in corcus land where the land was divided to people from three or four parishes in the locality. The land looks fine to me, a little heavy but grows grass well.

greenfingers89 wrote: »

hear hear, majority of sites start off with no more than 4 or 5 suitable species, another 2 or 3 could possibly be stuck in as minor species

mossad do you not think op would be better off sticking to a relatively straightforward species selection i.e just the two species? seen as its only 5 acres? if it was 50 acres i wouldn't be as worried about sticking in 4 or 5 different blocks... and seen as hes doing the work himself, he would avoid complicating it with different species perhaps requiring different fertiliser (seen as its a marginal site)

also i know you're well qualified to mention the acid sensitivity! any luck with your own situation?

the reason i ask the op where is the land is because it popped into my head that.....if it was good enough to cut silage off it (i know that doesnt mean its by any means great) then im a little surprised by €2200 per acre......leads me to believe there is a hidden issue here i.e acid sensitive, hen harrier, pearl mussel etc etc

again i'll repeat...never NEVER purchase land for planting without getting the technical approval from the department first

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