Whole-farm conversions to forestry still happening

Whole-farm conversions to forestry still happening

Reading Time: 4 minutes The farm next door to Dean Rabbidge’s Wyndham farm is about to be planted fence-to-fence in pine trees – and he’s absolutely gutted. “I just don’t understand how these whole-farm conversions to forestry are still happening,” the Federated Farmers Southland meat and wool chair says. “The Prime Minister stood up in front of hundreds of local farmers in Gore at the Restoring Farmer Confidence Tour last December saying they w…