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If you have a lot of extra land and don't know what to do with it, then let me suggest growing trees. With growing trees you can earn a small income without having to do much work. Sometimes if you're lucky the government will even help you pay or provide the trees as long as you keep them planted a certain amount of time.
Now let us look at the types of trees to plant. The most commonly used trees are pines. They are fast growing, fairly hardy, and have good wood. They also have a fairly good chance of surviving a controlled field burning.
To start off you should make sure your land can handle the trees. Check the soil for nutrients and see if there is any chance of flooding. Natural disasters ruin tons of crops every year and it's no different for tree harvesters. Another good thing to have is flat or only mildly hilly land. This will greatly help when it comes time to harvest the trees.
When you start to plant your trees plant them in long straight rows. You should plant them fairly close together without causing them to lose sunlight. As they grow you will need to start thinning out the trees so that some of them can grow bigger and taller.
Some people will also burn out the underbrush in a controlled fire. This helps clear below the canopy of trees and will help strengthen them.
You can figure on at least 15 years per harvest with periods in between where you thin trees and sell them off as wood or pulp. This is a long wait but it doesn't require much work and allows you to get that unused land earning income. You can also buy land with trees already on it and harvest them. This will help with the mortgage of the land and will get the land clear.