Forestry planting season begins this month

Andrew Doyle, Minister of State with responsibility for forestry, launched the 2017-18 afforestation programme recently in Donishall Nursery, Co Wexford. Donishall is one of two major nurseries and a cold-store facility in the 214ha None-so-Hardy Forestry complex, which employs 80 people in counties Wicklow and Wexford. Pictured with Minister Doyle are John Kavanagh and Teige Ryan of None-So-Hardy Forestry. The minister encouraged farmers “to seriously consider forestry” as a land use option

IFA president Joe Healy and Pat Collins, IFA national farm forestry chair, at the launch of the Five Point Plan to Revitalise Farm Forestry.