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Forestry & Timber News FORESTRY & TIMBER NEWS December 2018 Issue 90 LAND USE A CHANGING CLIMATE FOR SHEEP NEW POST & CLIP SYSTEM INTERMEDIATE PATENT GB2541960 METAL POST & CLIP SYSTEM DESIGNED, PATENTED & MANUFACTURED BY HAMPTON STEEL LTD Manufactured with Zinc, Magnesium and aluminium coating providing an excellent versatile long life alternative to timber posts 30 year guarantee Easy to install Versalok™ is suitable for the widest range of fencing patterns Versalok™ clips can be inserted anywhere along the posts Two Versalok™ clips can be inserted in one hole Produced in standard lengths: 1.8m, 2.2m & 2.9m other lengths are available. www.hamptonsteel.co.uk [email protected] T: +44 (0) 1933 234070 ™ CONTENTS NEWS & COMMENT 63 | PLANT HEALTH Confor is a membership organisation 5 | EDITORIAL that promotes sustainable forestry and CONFOR AND HTA DEMAND ACTION OF XYLELLA wood-using businesses. 6 | CLIMATE CHANGE Confor members receive Forestry and FEWER SHEEP, MORE TREES 64 | MOTOR Timber News for free as part of their MITSI MAKEOVER: L200 UPDATED membership. For more information on 8 | NEWS membership, visit THE AGRICULTURE BILL: WHAT 66 | PESTICIDES NOTEBOOK www.confor.org.uk/join-us FUTURE FOR BRITISH LAND USE? 69 | SMALL WOODLAND OWNER Past issues and articles can be accessed INTRODUCING ANTHONY GEDDES, online at CONFOR MANAGER FOR WALES 70 | FORESTRY IN PICTURES www.confor.org.uk/news/ftn-magazine FORESTRY STRATEGY TO BE ‘MORE Non-member subscriptions: THAN JUST WORDS ON A PAGE’ FEATURES £54 (£59 overseas). SIMON HODGSON TO LEAD Please contact [email protected] FORESTRY AND LAND SCOTLAND SUPPLY CHAIN PRESSURE AS CONFOR CONTACTS DEMAND INCREASES Stefanie Kaiser UNANIMOUS VOTE FOR MERGER Communications and editor FTN T: 0131 240 1420 FUTURE OF FORESTRY IN SAFE 14 | THE FORESTRY CENTURY E: [email protected] HANDS OF YOUNG THINKERS CELEBRATING THE PAST, EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE Caroline Harrison REGULARS National manager for England 20 | PALLETS AND PACKAGING M: 07500 927482 E: [email protected] 18 | THE FTN GUIDE TO DIGITAL A FLAGSHIP FOR SUSTAINABILITY COMMUNICATION Jamie Farquhar READY FOR SOCIAL MEDIA BUT NO National manager for Scotland M: 07817 374906 IDEA WHAT TO POST? E: [email protected] 23 | NEWS FROM OUR MEMBERS Anthony Geddes 31 | WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS National manager for Wales T: 074 94079305 E: [email protected] 32 | MARKETS TIMBER AUCTIONS REPORT 24 | WOOD SCIENCE AND TIMBER Andrew Heald MICFor TIMBER MARKET REPORT Technical Director and TREATMENT Northern Ireland representative FOREST MARKET REPORT M: 07771 844653 BRIMSTONE AND TIMBER E: [email protected] 39 | VIEW FROM THE EMERALD ISLE RISING DEMAND FOR UK TIMBER IS DRIVING DEMAND FOR WOOD Dr Eleanor Harris AFFORESTATION SHORT OF Policy Researcher TARGET AGAIN SCIENCE T: 0131 240 1417 E: [email protected] 44 | MACHINERY 29 | FTN REVIEW 2018 TACKLING THE SKILLS SHORTAGE 41 | PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Confor head office and editorial office 50 | NURSERY PRODUCERS GROUP CHARITY LAUNCHES CONSULTANCY 59 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2JG ARM THE GREAT BRITISH WEATHER OF FORESTRY AND WOODLANDS - TAX 0131 240 1410 2018 – HOW DID FOREST NURSERY CROPS RESPOND? REMINDER [email protected] 53 | TRAINING 54 | WOODLAND CARBON CODE JOINING FORCES ON TRAINING WOODLAND CARBON ‘DELIVERED’ – NOT JUST PROMISED www.confor.org.uk FORESTRY EXCELLENCE AWARDS For the latest news of forestry and wood 57 | TIMBER TRANSPORT sign up to #forestandwood on Twitter IN FOR THE LONG HAUL COVER IMAGE BY Published by Countrywide Publications, 61 | HEALTH & SAFETY SHUTTERSTOCK Fountain Way, Reydon, Suffolk IP18 6SZ ASH: SAFETY VS NATURE WHILE THIS IMAGE on behalf of Confor. WAS CHOSEN FOR For advertising, contact Laura Munnings 63 | ENVIRONMENT ITS VISUAL IMPACT, WE UNDERSTAND 01502 725866 IMPROVING ENVIRONMENTAL THE BREED OF [email protected] PROTECTION IN FORESTRY SHEEP MAY NOT BE REPRESENTATIVE OF Printed by Micropress Printers Ltd THE UK SECTOR - ED. EDITORIAL Get off to a good start STUART GOODALL CHIEF EXECUTIVE, CONFOR ’m going to skip Christmas and and grant schemes simpler, we also what you may be looking for provide technical support and drive in that increasingly threadbare up funding for the sector. Hopefully I stocking and move straight on to you enjoy this magazine and our New Year resolutions. Enews and social media. And I’m going to suggest a few for But if there’s more we should do the readers of this magazine. to help you, and people like you, to First, resolve to tell at least one be more successful please tell us. person a month about the incredible My own email address is stuartg@ benefits that forestry and timber confor.org.uk provide, and why we should plant Third, persuade at least one person more trees and use more home-grown to join Confor. wood. It’s not just that greater financial Promoting awareness and resources enables us to do more understanding is a continuing theme on your behalf, it’s also a case of for me. I can see how other less numbers. I speak to politicians and deserving sectors get more political officials and tell them I represent attention, support and funding 1500 members, from small to large because they are seen as important. businesses. That statement would Confor has fantastic resources have even greater impact if I could that you can make use of – refer to far more of the (at least) please visit our website 79,000 people who work across the or ask for help. UK in our sector. Second, come Give people our phone number along to our local (0131 240 1410), email them our meetings and tell website address or tell us who we us how we can should contact. make your business Fourth, tear out this page and better. put it in your diary or on your desk Confor does a for January 2 (maybe the 3rd in huge amount of Scotland). political lobbying, You wouldn’t want to forget to we meet with public make those all-important resolutions officials to make now, would you? regulation better www.confor.org.uk CLIMATE CHANGE Fewer sheep, more trees Committee on Climate Change calls for radical change in land use he latest report by the Com- A series of previous reports on climate mittee on Climate Change change have identified forestry as a “sim- (CCC) reminds Government ple, low-cost option” to making a signifi- of the urgent need for a steep cant impact on targets – as the climate Tstep change in land use in the change debate shifts from simply reducing context of climate change and recognises emissions to taking carbon out of the at- change, seems to move things forward in the need to reduce grazing land in favour mosphere (see FTN August, p6/7). two significant ways: of woodlands. The farming lobby and en- 1 Focus on land use vironmental groups are opening up to the New report brings spark of hope This is a specific report about land use and discussion. This could be the tipping-point However, translating positive calls from ex- climate change, and really gets into the in persuading the UK Government that it pert bodies into action remains a challenge. nitty-gritty detail of how things need to must take real action in pushing tree plant- Yet the latest CCC report, Land Use: reduc- change on the ground. ing up the policy agenda. ing emissions and preparing for climate 2 Increased support for land use change A range of voices are coming in behind Decisions need to Confor and other forestry organisations be made quickly and supporting the need for fundamental The UK’s goals for change. addressing climate The report clearly states that some land change are unlikely currently used to produce food needs to to be met without be converted to woodland, and specifically fundamental land recognises that one of the drivers for this is reform. Proposed to create sustainable timber homes. new UK laws on agriculture and the “The incremental changes seen in environment means the past to how we use land is not there is now a one- enough. There is a window now to off opportunity to have a more radical policy. There are define a new land government plans to increase planting strategy. rates, but the plans have not been funded and to date the targets have been missed.” Chris Stark, CCC chief executive Source: Land Use: reducing emissions Confor chief executive Stuart Goodall and preparing for said: “This independent, expert report reaf- climate change firms, yet again, that we need to get seri- 6 FORESTRY & TIMBER NEWS • December 2018 CONFOR.ORG.UK Support from vocal environmentalists The environmental lobby is also starting “Roughly four million hectares to throw its weight much more strongly of uplands is used for sheep, behind tree planting as a way to address yet sheep account for just 1.2% climate change in a quick, meaningful of our diet. Allowing trees to Fewer sheep, and cost-effective way - and to address return to a significant portion the issue of competing land uses head- on this land has a far greater on. Campaigner George Monbiot said potential for carbon reduction than the the report was “timid and inadequate” puny measures proposed in this report.” and Friends of the Earth’s Guy Shrubsole George Monbiot agreed that the CCC needed to go much “We need to reforest far further. Shrubshole’s call to double forest more trees more of Britain than the cover echoes the debate organised government’s current puny by Confor at Labour conference in tree-planting targets - going September, Should the next Labour beyond what this report calls Government aim to double tree cover to for and doubling forest cover tackle climate change? [from 13 to 26% across the UK] to lock-up carbon and help prevent floods.” Guy Shrubsole Channeling anger into action: time for clear commitments With support for a significant increase in “The long-term target is nothing tree planting growing to tackle climate more than an aspiration on ous about planting more trees if we are to change, Confor’s attention will turn to a page.
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