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New Zealand Tree Grower, May 2022
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President's Comment (Access: unrestricted)
Graham West
Despite the issues of Covid, we have recently held a successful Council meeting and Annual General Meeting via zoom, with 51 participants linked into the AGM session. There is a lot happening… -
Council meeting and AGM 2022 (Access: NZFFA membership)
Howard Moore
The Timaru conference was a victim of Covid 19 and we could not deal with official business, so we held replacement meetings over the internet on 8 April. Here is an… -
Eric Appleton – New Patron (Access: unrestricted)
NZFFA
The NZFFA is delighted to announce that Eric Appleton has accepted an invitation to be Patron for the next five years. Eric is a very enthusiastic and knowledgeable plantsman well known to the… -
Forest extension road shows (Access: unrestricted)
Hamish Levack
In April last year the Minister of Forestry, Stuart Nash, announced that he was funding Te Uru Rakau – New Zealand Forest Service to lift its planning and advisory capabilities, to help with… -
Harvesting the Lyndon lifestyle block (Access: NZFFA membership)
Lynne and Don Wallace
We own 60 hectares in Otaki Gorge, about 70 km north of Wellington. This consists of a 52-hectare forestry block about eight kilometres from State Highway 1 and a lifestyle block… -
Softer than Snow White It is He Waka Eke Noa (Access: NZFFA membership)
Howard Moore
Back in March I attended one of the webinars run by DairyNZ and Beef+Lamb informing farmers about He Waka Eke Noa. Parts of the webinar were bizarre, and I came away… -
North Island Husqvarna Farm Forester of the Year 2022 James Hunter (Access: NZFFA membership)
Applicants for the Husqvarna Farm Forester of the Year are rated with a points system. This covers personal effort in tree planting and results, service to the community, depth and spread… -
South Island Husqvarna Farm Foresters of the Year 2022 Laurie and Pauline Bennett (Access: NZFFA membership)
Laurie and Pauline Bennett’s 27-hectare forest farm is on Medway Road, eight kilometres south of Hanmer Springs. The predominantly north-facing property looks out across the Hanmer Plains to the Hanmer Range and Mount Dumblane… -
Landcare Trust Award for Innovation in Sustainable Farm Forestry - The Gray family (Access: unrestricted)
Barry and Liz Gray, along with sons Thomas and Jeremy, farm mainly in the Katea Valley about five kilometres north of Owaka. Of their 661 hectares, 571 hectares are made up of four… -
Why does the NZFFA exist? (Access: NZFFA membership)
Rachel Rose
I have the greatest respect for the considerable work and effort being volunteered by the reformers on the executive. They have an appropriate sense of urgency and I appreciate their efforts to research… -
Where is the market for cypress timber? (Access: NZFFA membership)
Vaughan Kearns
Following on from the recent article on hybrid cypress, I wanted to deal more in depth with the product that comes from harvesting the trees. This of course is naturally durable… -
‘Permanent forests’ and the three-forest mindset (Access: NZFFA membership)
Howard Moore
Officials seem to recognise only three types of forests – indigenous to be celebrated, production to be tolerated and wildings to be eliminated. Therefore, ‘permanent forests’ are likely to be indigenous.… -
Douglas-fir research Specialty Wood Products Research Partnership (Access: unrestricted)
Marco Lausberg and Harriet Palmer
This article contains more detail about research on Douglas-fir carried out by the Specialty Wood Products Research Partnership. Work on new products and their application has laid foundations for future market development,… -
The database of who owns small forests Snapshots in time (Access: NZFFA membership)
Julian Bateson & Howard Moore
The address database of forest owners is a snapshot in time of the owners of all of the plantation forests in New Zealand, the approximate size of those forests and the… -
The climate prefers production forests (Access: NZFFA membership)
Hamish Levack and Howard Moore
The arguments about the social, economic and environmental effects of permanent plantation forests seem to contain an implicit assumption that permanent forests will store more carbon than production forests. One is left… -
The Emissions Trading Scheme in 2022 What you can expect, and why you should be ready (Access: NZFFA membership)
Ollie Batelier-Belton and Mathilde Batelier-Belton
This article is the third of a series about the Emissions Trading Scheme. The year 2022 is a critical one. As we mentioned in previous articles, the Emissions Trading Scheme is… -
Sorting the eucalypts (Access: NZFFA membership)
Elizabeth Miller and Matt Buys
Eucalypts have been used extensively throughout New Zealand for shelter on farms, timber plantations and for amenity planting. When mature, some can be a practical or economic resource, but if it…
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