2 November 2020
Two foreign-owned forestry companies have been given Government approval to buy land in multiple transactions without requiring approval for each purchase from the Overseas Investment Office.
28 October 2020
A combined agriculture-forestry portfolio is one of the forestry industry’s hopes as the Government allocates ministers’ roles in the post-election shuffle.
29 September 2020
Forest owners are concerned forest plantings under the Government’s One Billion Trees plan risks stalling and becoming politicised as election year debate rises over forest plantings.
17 September 2020
Options for adding value to timber using biofuel technology have been welcomed as well-intentioned but unattainable unless significant changes are made to the sector’s ability to compete globally.
16 September 2020
A Government commitment to greater use of low-carbon construction has the potential to boost employment and encourage greater processing of the country’s forestry crop, Red Stag Group chief executive Marty Verry says.
9 September 2020
Government's plan to put more muscle into the wilding pine war chest is welcome, but Federated Farmers says it will not be enough to win the battle.
18 August 2020
Concern that clouds of pine pollen seen drifting on the breeze in recent weeks is playing havoc with peoples’ allergies has been questioned by Allergy New Zealand chief executive Mark Dixon.
13 August 2020
Wood processors say plants will close for good if the government persists with its plan to shut non-food industries in the event the Auckland lockdown moves into level 4.
3 July 2020
The Government is to require any conversion of highly productive farmland to forestry to get a resource consent, if Labour wins the election.
24 June 2020
While the Government has rolled out the welcome mat to foreign investors with a new wood processing industry prospectus, an industry head maintains trade issues pose the greatest challenge to the sector’s future expansion.
