TREE OWNERS - Think long before paying TATF to thin your trees.
It has been suggested that, as an option, tree owners pay TATF to thin their trees and that tree owners would all have a choice - to thin or not to thin. In practice this is, in large part, a fallacy and many such thinnings would be of limited value. The best way to explain is by example.
Many of the individual fields at the farms have very long rows. Tree owners get allocated rows of trees when they buy. At Sierpe, a row can have on the order of 100 trees in a row. A given tree owner with 100 trees that chooses to pay TATF for thinning would have his row of trees thinned, but the tree owners of the rows of trees on either side of him may choose not to give TATF any further money. Therefore, the tree owner which is paying for thinning would see limited benefit from it as the adjacent rows would not be thinned. Similarly, a tree owner with 500 trees, or roughly 5 rows, may pay for all 500 trees to be thinned, but the outside 2 rows may benefit little from the thinning.
Of course, the larger group of trees that you have, the less this feature would apply.
I would hope that the long awaited communications from TATF mentioned in an earlier posting, would address this issue.
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