Growth period is much quicker here Ebbie 20/30 years most of our timber is used for pulp.

Oregon pine is building timber. We grow mainly Sika Spruce.

After WW2, unemployment was high, and the old mixed farming system was dying out. Govt financed tree farming was seen as an answer to all the problems, but by the seventies it was becoming highly mechanised, now very few are employed.

Hopefully as the recession bites we will be forced back to the old labour intensive farming methods...could be a start on the new lifestyle which we will be obliged to adopt.