- Farmers can Retain full single farm payments on planted land.
- Tax-Free premium payable for 15 years
- Afforestation grants cover full costs of planting, Free forest establishment
- Landowner remains 100% owner of both the land and the crop
- Attractive grants for forest roads, tending and thinning
- Tax efficient regarding inheritance
- Tax-Free status of timber sales
- Increasing demand and consequently price for timber internationally due to;
- Increasing world population, from 6 billion people in 2002 to 7.9 billion by 2025 (Source UN population division)
- Increasing use of renewable fuels as laid down in the Kyoto protocol and the EU white paper on renewable energy (from 6% to 20% by 2020)
- Decreasing supply from Russia due to export levies
- Forest area decreasing worldwide annually. Net loss to agriculture and other uses is estimated at 7.3 million hectares per year (source : www.fao.org).
- Emerging markets in China and India.
- Amenity value in certain circumstances
