Mr. Gerry Britchfield:

As I stated earlier, we would love to be involved in afforestation as we are foresters. Ultimately, we cannot afford to buy land on the open market, which is where we must buy it, in competition with others who wish to buy the land when we do not qualify for the premia that, for example, a farmer would have. If we are up against somebody qualifying for a premium in competing for that land, we cannot pay the market price and make a commercial prospect out of planting it. That does not stack up. We are not in the afforestation market, although we have tried other ways of trying to ensure we are involved in new planting, and, for example, we have been involved in the farm partnership process over the last decade, with approximately 10,000 ha having been planted by farmers in partnership with us. Ultimately, without forestry premia, it is very difficult for us to compete in the open market for land.