Plantation land comes at a discount and a catch – it's covered with trees

By Philip Hopkins
Updated September 24 2014 - 1:08am, first published 12:15am
A Blue Gum plantation near Orford.
A Blue Gum plantation near Orford.
A Blue Gum plantation near Orford.
A Blue Gum plantation near Orford.
A Blue Gum plantation near Orford.
A Blue Gum plantation near Orford.

Rural investors will pay on average 35 per cent less for farm land now under hardwood tree plantations, research shows, but they will still have to pay to return the forested land to traditional farming.

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