MIS News

New bluegums for Victoria

More bluegum plantations are on the way in western Victoria.

NEW bluegums are set to be planted in western Victoria despite thousands of hectares of plantations being bulldozed before harvest.

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Nats fear carbon storage

A proposal for carbon sink forests could see a split in Coalition ranks.

THE Nationals could split with the Liberal Party over the Federal Government's proposed Carbon Farming Initiative.

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Plantation fiasco growing

Forestry plantations may be back in favour under emissions trading

EMISSIONS trading could see forestry land being converted to farmland returned to forestry, the Australian Farm Institute says.

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MIS trees ripped out

Blue-gum plantation land is returning to agriculture.

THE final nail is in the managed investment scheme coffin as almost 6000has of trees are ripped out to create farmland.

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Farms in dark over carbon

There's confusion over what types of tree plantings will be best for carbon offsets.

FARMERS still don't know if they'll be able to sell permits into the initial emissions trading scheme.

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Land sale a disgrace

The Great Southern Plantations estate should have been sold in farm-size lots.

AUSTRALIA needs to hang on to its food-producing land, writes LESLIE WHITE

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MIS land sale anger

Managed Investment Scheme land is set to make a fortune for a receivership company.

A FOREIGN company is set to make a killing selling off land it acquired via managed investment schemes.

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MIS land sale fury

MIS land sale fury

ANOTHER 252,000ha of managed investment scheme land has been sold cheaply to foreign interests.

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MIS station sells in WA

The sale of a WA station ends another chapter in the MIS saga.

ANOTHER slice of failed managed investment company Great Southern has been sold.

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Dartmoor gums fall at last

Gunns' Andrew Wiggill (left) and Neil Turner take a break from harvesting bluegums at Dartmoor

GUNNS finally began harvesting bluegums at Dartmoor in the Victoria's far southwest last week.

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'Let us buy MIS land'

Great Southern plantation estates may be broken up and sold back to family farmers

LEGAL opinion will decide whether MIS giant Great Southern's 270,000ha estate will be broken up and sold back to family farmers.

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Tehan to fight for MIS demise

Liberal MP for Wannon Dan Tehan to fight for MIS demise

DAN Tehan will use his maiden parliamentary speech today to call for managed investment schemes in forestry "to go".

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