Farm Forestry New ZealandCommercial return - Medium (Moderately profitable)
Species:
- Eucalyptus - Mountain ash
- Indigenous species - Totara
- Acacia - Blackwood
- Cedar - Japanese cedar
- Cypress - Macrocarpa
- Cypress - Lusitanica
- Fir - Douglas fir
- Fir - Grand fir
- Larch - Japanese larch
- Larch - European larch
- Poplar - Kawa poplar
- Poplar - Veronese poplar
- Pine - Radiata pine
- Redwood - Coast redwood
- Redwood - Giant sequoia
- Pine - Norfolk Island pine
This species is likely to be moderately profitable. Although you likely seek a commercial return from harvesting trees for timber, this may not be your only driver for selection of this tree species. You do not require maximum economic returns or are perhaps wanting to grow a high value timber species and are satisfied with longer rotations and lower annualised yields.
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