A MAJOR Omission yet again

Field east

A major omission YET AGAIN

A am amazed at the government when setting up committees/bodies to make recommendations on some issue , policy change or whatever that it almost consistently omits key stakeholders - ie mainly organisations at the ACTUAL COALFACE. It ‘beggars belief’ why this is so and then the GOv is ‘ scratching its head ‘ as to why there is no ‘buy in’ from whatever sector is involved.

The agriculture sector regularly experiences this ‘attitude’ to the sector.

I note in this weeks Irish Farmers’ Journal this week that organisations involved in the forestry sector - representing growers - was left out from the setting up of the Carbon Farming Framework Group. What was the Dept of AGR thinking? Just imagine how the actual forestry growers and their representative org feel being initially left out and then ‘reluctantly ‘ brought on board under pressure eventually

tabby aspreme

They'd have the incorrect ideology

timfromtang

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058358557/a-major-omission-yet-again

Perhaps its a culture thing, perhaps arrogance, perhaps carelessness,

Certainly not a new thing,

Perhaps we growers could take better charge of our crops and our situation?

getting governed by folk who dont even bother to ask us what we think sucks,

many of us would consider it wrong to even treat children like this,

….

ash dieback also sucks

our experience here in Tang is shredding us literally as we thrash through to briars to fell our sick and dying trees.

The "grant" although increased from earlier offerings

best described perhaps as

"A parsimonius pittance"

We're fighting through the briars, felling trees planted in 1996, and the grant works out to €1/tree.

Now "How the F**# am I supposed to fell and move to roadside or yard for that, FFS CLUSTERF###

10Ha! a full third of our holding. Gone to God. A total loss of 28 growing years.

The one slightly positive twist perhaps that the cleared area and necessary replanting gives an opportunity to do it better next time and moves closer to our desired age range for the intended continuous cover management in the future.

sigh!

rant over

tim

Accidentally

The department haven't a clue about forestry, and most farmers treat it as a way to make a few quid from **** land. I'm not even surprised they were not invited.

The fun will start if we ever get a disease that wines out Sitka Spruce. It appears we never got the memo on monoculture.