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Save leitrim/forestry is ruining rural ireland

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    #32
    baaba maal
    Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭baaba maal


    fergus1001 wrote: »
    I am personally from a farm myself, I think where land is genuinely non productive they should be allocated to an alternative land use ( I'm not just talking about forestry wind and solar farms spring to mind too), where land is actually productive or has the potential to be land should be put into larger blocks in a land commission style system to ensure that farms are large enough to sustain themselves and provide employment to the surrounding areas

    I know there is an emotional attachment to the land in this country but we need to look at things differently if places like leitrim is to succeed going forward

    To be fair, I asked if you thought there were any negative impacts from the current scale of planting- that doesn't really answer that question (and if you don't think there are any negatives just say so!).
    Thanks


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    #33
    fergus1001
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    baaba maal wrote:
    To be fair, I asked if you thought there were any negative impacts from the current scale of planting- that doesn't really answer that question (and if you don't think there are any negatives just say so!). Thanks


    The answer was in there, I think it should be limited to non productive ground

    the scale of planting is fine but could be diversified a bit


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    #34
    orchard farm
    Registered Users Posts: 272 ✭✭orchard farm


    Just a question guys hope you can help.in leitrim over 5000 meters of my farm mearns coniferous forestry planted 30years right to the boundaries,resulting in circa 15meters width of some good productive land which once was tillage ground turned into sunless,lifeless swamp.will forestry owner/company compensate me for loss of land?


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    #35
    fergus1001
    Registered Users Posts: 2,625 ✭✭✭fergus1001


    orchard farm wrote:
    Just a question guys hope you can help.in leitrim over 5000 meters of my farm mearns coniferous forestry planted 30years right to the boundaries,resulting in circa 15meters width of some good productive land which once was tillage ground turned into sunless,lifeless swamp.will forestry owner/company compensate me for loss of land?

    if it's planted 30 years it should be cut down soon, you must have some block of land if you have 5km of a boundary ditch ?! can you honestly say that the area receives 0 sunlight ?


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    #36
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users Posts: 9,683 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    orchard farm wrote: »
    Just a question guys hope you can help.in leitrim over 5000 meters of my farm mearns coniferous forestry planted 30years right to the boundaries,resulting in circa 15meters width of some good productive land which once was tillage ground turned into sunless,lifeless swamp.will forestry owner/company compensate me for loss of land?

    I've seen similar issues around Mayo where plantations were shoe horned onto local raised bogs and messed up the drainage on adjacent farmland. Plus the quality of alot of this forestry is basically rubbish with large areas fallen over due to wind-throw and subsidence as the bog dried out when the natural vegetation died off under the spruce


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