Prime Victorian dairy farming land is being bought to grow tree plantations for pulp and earn carbon credits.
The buyers include a German company and Gina Rinehart.
Concerned locals are calling for a moratorium on tree-planting and a change to land use rules to stop food-producing land disappearing.
Landline's Pip Courtney investigates.
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