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• 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…
• Further tax changes possible
  Monday, January 17, 2022
  Changes are possible to the ‘cost of standing timber’ provisions of the Income Tax Act.  Farm Forestry members have been working to help willing owners aggregate their forests for economies…
• Forest Owners say Fish and Game barking up the wrong tree
  Thursday, December 09, 2021
  The Forest Owners Association says Fish and Game’s criticism of exotic plantation forests doesn’t accord with reality. “Fish and Game is, quite simply, barking up the wrong tree when it…
• Changing causes and impacts of unwanted fires in our forest and rural landscapes
  Friday, December 03, 2021
  Commercial forests and climate change are regularly cited as contributors to an increase in  unwanted rural fires in New Zealand. However, evidence suggests other factors are exacerbating the causes and…
• Consultation opens for registration of forestry advisers and log traders
  Thursday, November 25, 2021
  Key players in the forestry industry are encouraged to have their say on the design of a new registration system for log traders and forestry advisors with consultation opening today.…
• Forest Owners says lessons for New Zealand in UN Wood-Based Products Report
  Friday, November 19, 2021
  The Forest Owners Association says the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation has laid down a blueprint for the New Zealand forest and wood industry, with the release of ‘Forest Products…