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If the amount of farmland being converted to forestry each year exceeds 40,000 hectares, the government would look to intervene, Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor told Parliament's primary production select committee today. Increased forestry is a key government policy, with a dual mandate of meeting the net-zero carbon target for 2050 and to create more jobs in woods processing. But there is growing disquiet, particularly by the agricultural sector, that rules intended to encourage planting don’t target marginal land and may take f...

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