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… incentivising wholesale land use change from pastoral-based farming into exotic trees – because the increasing price of carbon credits is distorting what land is worth and productive farmland is being sold for the future planting of trees – mainly exotic species such as pinus radiata.  From a climate change policy perspective an increasing carbon price is not necessarily a bad thing as it should in theory lead to the actual reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from … 2021: B+LNZ says Government can’t ignore growing calls for carbon forestry limits 16 December 2021: New report confirms trend of land-use change from pastoral farming to carbon farming 2 February 2022: B+LNZ reaction to Government signals on …

Animal production from lucerne based pastures …