Outlook is good for log exports
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.
FORESTRY ARCHIVES
Forest rule puts the cart first
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.
January log exports up
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.
Forestry spread worries farmers
22 March 2018
Assurances are being sought the Government’s billion-tree planting programme will not gut rural communities of people and services.
Scion research supports native nursery project
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.
Boost for Maori tree nursery
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.
Growing fuel a double benefit
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.
All Pamu farms off the market
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Just three of the 10 farms Landcorp put up on the market in 2016 have sold with the remaining two farms now withdrawn from the market under directions from the Government.
Pamu boosts tree planting programme
23 February 2018
The Government’s billion-tree programme has received an early boost with Pamu, formerly Landcrop, ready to plant 2000ha in the next two years.
The Government plans to use its $1 billion annual Provincial Growth Fund to encourage the planting of a billion trees in the next decade, equivalent to 10,000ha of forestry, of which half will be new planting.
More land is needed for trees
14 February 2018
The Government will rent from landowners or enter joint ventures to access land for a portion of the billion trees it proposes planting in the next 10 years.
Crown Forestry manager Warwick Foran said to meet the policy 50,000ha of new land had to be planted each year in addition to 50,000ha of replanting.
