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Sherman Lackey wrote:
> 
> > >>I am hearing you say that your timber is like any other agricultural crop
> > >>like my berries or corn or squash.  I agree that this is a complex issue
> > >>and I am not well informed about the nuances -- I cannot see how your
> > >>timber is in any way similar to other agricultural crops you refer to.
> > >
> > >Prepare the land, plant, nurture, harvest, repeat.  The cycle is the
> > >same, though it's longer for apples or lumber than it is for strawberries
> > >and squash.
> > >
> > >       -- Robert
> >
> > You neither prepare the land, plant, nor nurture timber in any similar way
> > to apples or squash.  You buy or inherit the land with the timber already
> > present.

Need a reality check here.  In some ways the preperation and planting of
timber is far more intense than that of row crops.  Heavy site
preperation is no more than the plowing and tilling to prep the land for
planting.  The planting process is the same, stick a tree in the ground
at regular intervals.  Depending on the crop, fertilizer, herbicieds,
pruning, weeding, etc ad infinitum, are regular applications.  In some
areas bedding is required to plant some species.

Agriculture is agriculture, trees or beans.  Man endeavors to produce
from the land a crop to his benefit and survival.

And, by the way, don't apples grow on trees?
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