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• NZFFA submission on Industry Transformation Plan
  Thursday, October 06, 2022
  The Ministry for Primary Industries has issued a draft Forestry and Wood Processing Industry Transformation Plan. This is a welcome contribution and appears to be well researched, but we feel…
• RECOGNITION FOR FORESTRY’S HIGHEST ACHIEVERS IN 2022
  Sunday, September 18, 2022
  This week at an awards dinner held in Auckland the New Zealand Institute of Forestry (NZIF) announced the winners of its three most prestigious awards. The 2022 recipients are acknowledged…
• Wooden cities key to cutting worldwide carbon emissions to combat climate change
  Tuesday, September 13, 2022
  The Forest Owners Association President is predicting massive increases in the worldwide demand for engineered timber construction. Grant Dodson has told delegates at the Forest Institute Conference in Auckland today…
• Forestry Transformation Plan could be ‘game changer’
  Sunday, August 21, 2022
  Forestry Transformation Plan could be ‘game changer’ for New Zealand economy and for combating climate change The Forest Owners Association says the Forestry and Wood Processing Industry Transformation Plan has…
• New campaign launches to attract more people into forestry careers
  Wednesday, August 10, 2022
  A new recruitment campaign called ‘Find Your Fit In Forestry’ aims to draw attention to the varied career opportunities available in the growing forestry industry. A sector-wide initiative, the campaign…
• Trees on Your Farm – Pilot Workshops
  Friday, July 01, 2022
  In May, members of the NZFFA held three pilot workshops in the lower North Island aimed at encouraging hill country farmers to grow more trees. The format was a day…
• Federated Farmers struggling with both the law and arithmetic
  Thursday, June 30, 2022
  The Forest Owners Association says Federated Farmers have got their sums wrong on the rate of forest planting and don’t understand the law on overseas investment either. FOA is responding…
• New Zealand Future Foresters part of the launch of Global Network for Forestry Young Professionals
  Sunday, June 12, 2022
  Future Foresters New Zealand is supporting a global effort to unite forestry young professionals to promote, grow, and raise awareness of the importance and opportunities of the forest sector.  The…
• Forest Owners say native trees are nice but won’t solve the Climate Emergency
  Tuesday, May 17, 2022
  The Forest Owners Association says the just released Emissions Reduction Plan is a welcome and unprecedented blueprint for reducing New Zealand’s gross emissions. But the Association is warning that a…
• ‘Smart spade’ one of new technologies for forest silviculture project
  Thursday, May 05, 2022
  A ‘smart spade’ which identifies exactly where to plant a tree seedling is just one of the new technologies in the seven-year $25.5 million Precision Silviculture development project. The newly…
• Forest Owners call for forest trade mission to India
  Monday, April 11, 2022
  Forest Owners call for forest trade mission to India following approval of new fumigant for log exports  The Forest Owners Association wants a delegation of government ministers to urgently go to…
• Forest Owners and Federated Farmers mourn passing of former Chief Executive of both organisations
  Sunday, April 03, 2022
  The pastoral and forest industries are mourning the recent passing of Rob McLagan, who served as Chief Executive of both Federated Farmers and the Forest Owners Association. Rob was CE…
• Joint efforts under way after unwanted pest detected in Tauranga
  Wednesday, March 30, 2022
  Biosecurity New Zealand is working with primary sector and Te Tiriti partners after a single confirmed egg mass belonging to the moth pest the fall armyworm was found in Tauranga.…
• Forest Biosecurity update March 2022
  Thursday, March 10, 2022
  Check out the latest Biosecurity newsletter which gives an update on the biosecurity surveillance system, pitch pine canker, red needle cast, tortoise beetles, a new ladybird (always good) and the…
• Forest Owners says IPCC doesn't back Anne Salmond
  Wednesday, March 02, 2022
  The Forest Owners Association says highly qualified reservations in the latest International Panel on Climate Change report, do not back anthropologist Anne Salmond’s claims that New Zealand should switch exclusively…
• Forest Owners puzzled at overseas investment reform
  Thursday, February 24, 2022
  The Forest Owners Association is asking why the government needs to reintroduce more process around overseas investment for conversions from pasture to plantation forests.  The Associate Minister of Finance, David…
• Forest Owners tell government to look across the Tasman
  Monday, February 21, 2022
  The Forest Owners Association is telling the government that Australia’s support of plantation forestry is in sharp contrast to the increasingly restrictive measures being promised in New Zealand by our…
• The folly of the native forest carbon solution
  Monday, February 21, 2022
  The Farm Forestry Association says anthropologist Dame Anne Salmond’s recently publicised views, that planting native forests offer the best solution to the climate crisis, is misinformed and misleading.   Association President Graham West says the overwhelming…
• Forestry Minister has strategic leadership opportunity in farm forestry
  Friday, February 04, 2022
  The Farm Forestry Association says Forestry Minister, Stuart Nash, should incentivise farmers to plant more trees to combat climate change.  Association President Graham West asks, “Why isn’t the government working…
• Forest Owners challenge Federated Farmers to prove misleading carbon farming claims
  Tuesday, February 01, 2022
  The Forest Owners Association is telling Federated Farmers that it needs to educate itself about how the Overseas Investment Act works before making any more false claims about non-existent overseas…