Why can’t we use agricultural equipment to plant forests?

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Every season we have farmers plant fields. Sometimes 100’s of archers large. They have heavy machinery. And with just a handful of men. They are able to plow and seed these fields.
Why can’t the same skill set and machinery plant a forest? Say, in the midwest or on the out skirts of the Dust Bowl? Or in the ever eroding South American Rain Forest?

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I live in an area with a large number of coal mines. I don’t know exactly what equipment is used but this happens frequently, most of the ground was farmland before mining so it’s replanted as pasture, but some of it is forest.

If they’re planting trees it’s usually a better idea to plant seedlings instead of seeds so you’ll see clear rows in replanted forests.

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