I'd like to see some data regarding this, actually.
I've got a good friend that owns a tree farm in Oregon, and if you listen to the environmentalists, they make it sound like Richard is some sort of maniac clear-cutting idiot who is destroying a precious natural resource.
The opposite becomes apparent if you actually talk to him about the farm, and look at the money they put into both planning and tree-farming technology. Him, and his family, view their forest as a long-term asset, not to mention an effectively infinite stream of future revenue, and a great place to go hiking.
They go to incredible lengths to make sure that their forest is going to be around, and viably growing, a few hundred years from now.
It seems odd that any large company wouldn't look at their company-owned farms in the same fashion.
Of course, corporate owners can be greedy and stupid as well. So I'd like to know more about how large-scale farming causes soil damage.
I've got a good friend that owns a tree farm in Oregon, and if you listen to the environmentalists, they make it sound like Richard is some sort of maniac clear-cutting idiot who is destroying a precious natural resource.
The opposite becomes apparent if you actually talk to him about the farm, and look at the money they put into both planning and tree-farming technology. Him, and his family, view their forest as a long-term asset, not to mention an effectively infinite stream of future revenue, and a great place to go hiking.
They go to incredible lengths to make sure that their forest is going to be around, and viably growing, a few hundred years from now.
It seems odd that any large company wouldn't look at their company-owned farms in the same fashion.
Of course, corporate owners can be greedy and stupid as well. So I'd like to know more about how large-scale farming causes soil damage.