6 June 2018
The forestry sector has responded with surprise to claims it has fallen behind pastoral farming in its biosecurity measures, maintaining the sector has done more than its share to protect commercial forests from incursions.
4 May 2018
The rural sector is likely to lose population and services as livestock is replaced by up to 2.8 million ha of new forestry so New Zealand can become a net zero carbon emitter by 2050.
27 April 2018
Log exports have picked up after a slowdown ahead of the Chinese New Year and traders are optimistic about the outlook for the year ahead, according to the latest AgriHQ forest market report.
29 March 2018
Taranaki farmer Neil Walker hopes proposed changes by the Government will add clarity to the eligibility rules for forests joining the Emissions Trading Scheme.
26 March 2018
New Zealand exported more than one million cubic metres of softwood logs in January, only the second time in the country’s history that such a high volume has been shipped in the month.
22 March 2018
Assurances are being sought the Government’s billion-tree planting programme will not gut rural communities of people and services.
21 March 2018
Breakthrough technology developed by Scion researchers is playing a big part in the ability of the Minginui Nursery to expand its operations and the ability to replenish larger tracts of native forest.
21 March 2018
The rubber has started to hit the road in the Government’s $1 billion regional development policy as an iwi nursery project becomes one of the first recipients of $5.8 million to allow it to expand operations.
7 March 2018
New Zealand faces some tough targets under its Paris Accord climate change obligations and while agriculture is under pressure to reduce its portion of greenhouse emissions there is also room for the transport sector to reduce its 23% portion of national emissions.
2 March 2018
Just three of the 10 farms Landcorp put up on the market in 2016 have sold with the remaining two farms now withdrawn from the market under directions from the Government.
