Landowners learn of rich returns from mature hardwood

Landowners continue to plant up to an additional 6,500 hectares of trees every year, say the organisers of a workshop on hardwood forestry tomorrow in the Manor Hotel, Abbeyleix, Co Laois.

This event is hosted by the Teagasc’s Forestry Development Department, and comes at a time when many of the broadleaf woodlands planted in the early 1990s are approaching the time for thinning.

The key message of the event is that quality is key in the production of valuable hardwood timber.