Today in Pictures

[blueversi]

About 2000, my brother came home with his college education in something conservation (ish), and informed me that the best use for the quarter of land I had just bought was to seed it down to poplar trees to harvest in a few decades.
Ignoring the economic necessity of having no income to make the payments in the intervening decades, the next issue is that a few years later, the nearest pulp mill closed down.
The next closest is so far away that if they take any wood from this area it has to be free, and even then they rarely will take it, since trucking costs more than the wood is worth. There are piles of rotting poplars still left over from that era.

Kind of seems to me like a slap in the face to whoever broke the land to seed it back to big weeds.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Kind of seems to me like a slap in the face to whoever broke the land to seed it back to big weeds.

That is my opinion exactly. Knowing how much blood sweat and tears and scarce capital went into breaking this land to start with, it would make the old timers cry to see all the non farmers around here planting trees, or letting the land revert to trees.

My grandpa traded a JD D on rubber for a D on steel. Then he and a blacksmith fabricated some sort of frame for piling bush. I think he used the same tractor to pull a breaking plow. Grandma, Dad and his older sister had the pleasure of picking roots. He also hired natives to pick roots. Unimaginable amount of work.

[chuckChuck]

You can farm and have trees on your land too! Its not just one or the other.

Trees offer many benefits especially in drier areas.

And landowners can and should plant as may trees as they want.

Why is a libertarian suggesting that this is wrong?

A5,the pretend libertarian who wants to tell everyone what is right or wrong and what they should do?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Since this is the pictures thread, perhaps Chuck can post some pictures of all the trees he has planted, since he is touting the many benefits of trees, and suggesting landowners should plant trees.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Kind of seems to me like a slap in the face to whoever broke the land to seed it back to big weeds.

Big weeds is exactly what they are too.
Poplar trees cost us more yield every year than any other weed. A half mile of trees completely wipes out an acre either side of it from sucking all the moisture and nutrients, plus shade. I don't even bother seeding that close. The next 2 acres beyond that are far below average.
Suckers pop up well over 100 feet from the nearest tree. Suckers still coming up on land we cleared 6 years ago.
A constant battle to keep them from creeping in fro

[blueversi]

Big weeds is exactly what they are too.
Poplar trees cost us more yield every year than any other weed. A half mile of trees completely wipes out an acre either side of it from sucking all the moisture and nutrients, plus shade. I don't even bother seeding that close. The next 2 acres beyond that are far below average.
Suckers pop up well over 100 feet from the nearest tree. Suckers still coming up on land we cleared 6 years ago.
A constant battle to keep them from creeping in fro

Cleaning up saplings from field edges of an old neglected hay field now and it’s amazing how fast they takeover.

[foragefarmer]

Cleaning up saplings from field edges of an old neglected hay field now and it’s amazing how fast they takeover.

Trim all our forage fields along the tree lines with a 6 ft brush mower. Keeps them in check pretty good till early August swathing.

[Landdownunder]

Hot day

[Blaithin]

That’s like the cast of Wishbone having a pool party.

[Landdownunder]

more dog pics....