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• Forest owners say forests are productive and vital in meeting climate change goals
  Monday, May 17, 2021
  The Forest Owners Association says the Federated Farmers’ call for the government to restrict forest planting ranks as an unnecessary intrusion on the right of farmers to plant trees on…
• Te Uru Rakau – NZ Forest Service explores biofuels as a major opportunity for New Zealand
  Monday, May 10, 2021
  Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service is laying the foundations for a new biofuels industry, to turn forestry waste into a potential billion-dollar industry, and working on a…
• KTM Supreme Winner at Forestry Awards
  Monday, May 10, 2021
  The best of best in the region’s forestry industry were toasted at a sell-out Southern North Island Wood Council Training Awards dinner last night. The supreme winner, found from the…
• Greater role for a public forestry service
  Thursday, April 29, 2021
  Media Statement from Hon Stuart Nash Minister of Forestry  A greater role for a public forestry service has been outlined by the Forestry Minister, to drive the focus on regional…
• Expansion of Forest Service role a vital move
  Thursday, April 29, 2021
  The Forest Owners Association says the just announced creation of Te Uru Rākau – New Zealand Forest Service heralds the potential to fix vital bottlenecks in the initial stages of the forest industry…
• Plantation forestry ranks best for land use
  Thursday, April 15, 2021
  The just released Ministry for the Environment’s latest environmental report scores exotic forestry highly for its low impact on soils. The MfE report identified exotic forests as the land use by far…
• The NZIF Foundation Awards & Scholarship Applications Now Open
  Thursday, April 15, 2021
  The NZIF Foundation is offering the following awards in 2021: Future Forest Scholarship for post graduate research of up to $10,000  Up to two scholarships available Otago Southland Award One or…
• Foresters celebrate scooping primary industry awards
  Wednesday, April 14, 2021
  The Forest Owners Association says taking out three of the four category prizes in the Primary Industries’ Good Employer Awards this week is a sign the forest sector has come…
• Log supply not the cause of timber shortage
  Wednesday, March 31, 2021
  Forest organisations have joined to reject statements that the current shortage of framing timber is caused by foresters selling logs to China and not leaving enough timber to be processed…
• Farm Foresters fired up to play a role in land use issues.
  Monday, March 29, 2021
  Farm foresters are now excited and fully informed to play a role in helping role solve NZ land use issues says the incoming association president, Graham West. They have just…
• Wairoa foresters forced to subsidise local meatworks
  Thursday, February 18, 2021
  Foresters in the Wairoa District are appalled that a part of their recent rate increase will go to propping up the local meatworks. Wairoa District Council disclosed at a meeting…
• Foresters say pines to be relied on to meet climate targets
  Monday, February 01, 2021
  The Forest Owners Association says the Climate Change Commission has endorsed the crucial role exotic forestry will carry out in meeting New Zealand’s net greenhouse gas emission targets in 2030…
• Forest Growers Levy rate to increase for the first time in seven years
  Thursday, December 03, 2020
  Directors of the Forest Growers Levy Trust have raised the rate on Harvested Wood Materials, for the first time since the levy was introduced by a forest grower referendum in…
• Forest Growers Levy Board increases Levy to 33 cents per tonne
  Thursday, November 26, 2020
  The Board of the Forest Growers Levy Trust has increased the Levy rate to 33 cents per tonne of harvested wood materials, the first increase in the Levy rate since…
• Minister's Roots In Forestry
  Tuesday, November 24, 2020
  The Minister of Forestry, Stuart Nash when speaking at the annual Farm Forestry Awards last Tuesday, announced he had started his career in farm forestry and as a student pruned trees…
• Forest industry says main political parties abandon forest industry
  Tuesday, October 13, 2020
  Forest industry says main political parties abandon forest industry at economic and environmental cost The Labour and National parties’ policies on forestry, leading into the election, are disappointing to forest…
• Taxpayers to pick up carbon cost if production forests are restricted
  Friday, September 18, 2020
  The Forest Owners Association says taxpayers are likely to have to pay billions of dollars for imported carbon credits, if planting production forests is to be restricted with the idea…
• Forest industry says government wood preference policy good for economy and environment
  Tuesday, September 15, 2020
  Forest owners say the government’s announcement of a policy to give preference to low greenhouse gas emission materials in government construction will be good for both the environment and for…
• Election forestry policy unnecessary
  Tuesday, July 07, 2020
  Right now, we are in a Covid-19 recovery phase and an election year.  Farmers feel good about keeping the economy going, but are challenged by climate change, freshwater regulations and…
• New construction policy will deliver more timber use
  Monday, July 06, 2020
  The Forest Owners Association says the MBIE announcement of ‘Building for Climate Change’ will mean more timber is used in New Zealand construction. FOA President Phil Taylor says he’s been…