Why talk of rewetting peaty soils often meets a hostile reaction

Discussion on rewetting must include how raising water tables in peaty soils to a level that still allows productive farming can protect these soils

Because of this subsidence, farming peaty soils is not a viable medium-to-long-term use of the soil in many circumstances.

Tree trunks coming to the surface of your pasture, which have to be removed if you want to cut silage, are part of the secret life of farmed peatlands.

They are a sign of the natural process of subsidence, and of the peaty soil wasting away, until the water table will eventually come to within 20 cm of the surface, significantly lowering the productivity of the land for the farmer.