{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Forestry Now","title":"Where Farming Meets Forestry - with Andy Dunne","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2593,"description":"Today I speak with Andy Dunne. Andy's an agricultural consultant based in Portlaoise, Ireland. He's also a forest owner and a member of the Laois Offaly Farm Forestry Group. Andy explains how he manages his own forest and his experience working with adjoining forest owners using a Continuous Cover Forestry approach.\nThen we talk about his role as an Agricultural Consultant and his experience advising farmers on their options under the current forestry programme. He highlights the way forestry has been marginalised outside of farming and how this affects the attitudes of land holders to it. Finally he explains with clear examples how current restrictions around afforestation rarely result in the best outcome for nature.\nKey Points:\nHow Andy made the decision to plant land and why it worked for him.\nCollaborative forestry management including approaches to roads and felling licences.\nState support (or lack thereof) and lack of a holistic created siloed thinking between farming and forestry.\nEncouraging landowners to plant given regulations and land designations. \nRecognising the inevitable environmental trade offs inherent with the Irish forestry system. \nImpact of designations on current land value.\nShifting attitudes towards forestry.\n\nQuotes: \n\"When I planted it was simple - it's not simple anymore...\"\n\"If we integrate (forestry) at an institutional level, we start to get the farmer integrating his thinking around it as well.\"\n\"If you impose any burden, and a designation (environmental) is a burden... it's restricting what you can and can't do with the land... it will affect the value.\"\n\"The dairy farmer up the road will reclaim it for me, and he'll give me 350 euros an acre for it...\"\n\nThe ForestryNow newsletter signup\nforestrynowpodcast@gmail.com\nLinks:\nAndy Dunne's Agri Consultants: https://www.facebook.com/eaecltd/\nAndy on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/andy-dunne-72b07718Andy's profile at the Agricultural Consultants' Association \nhttps://aca.ie/andy-dunne/\nFarm...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/y-Ns7qgeQc4APOd80Zlamk7qjqkdHoEVT6BTEG7fO4A/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZmZj/ZWY3Yjg1ZjZiZmYy/ZTNjMGQ5YWZlY2Jh/NWUwMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}