Forest diseases
- Acacia rust, Uromycladium spp.
- Agrocybe parasitica, native heart-rot fungus of hardwoods
- Allantophomopsis pseudotsugae
- Apiognomonia veneta, plane anthracnose
- Armillaria root disease
- Aulographina leaf spot of Eucalyptus
- Austropuccinia psidii, myrtle rust
- Bacterial leaf spot and canker of poplar, willow, and alder
- Bacterial stem canker of radiata pine
- Barron Road Syndrome, a disease of ash eucalypts
- Black stain root disease caused by Leptographium spp.
- Boron deficiency in radiata pine
- Botryosphaeria dothidea
- Botrytis cinerea
- Brown spot needle blight of Pinus species, Lecanosticta acicola
- Cladosporium leaf spots of Eucalyptus
- Colletotrichum acutatum
- Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, Lupin blight
- Cyclaneusma needle-cast
- Cypress canker, Seiridium unicorne and S. cardinale
- Cytospora disease of Eucalyptus in New Zealand
- Cyttaria galls
- Daño Foliar del Pino (DFP) caused by Phytophthora pinifolia
- Decays and Fungi
- Diplodia leader dieback, crown wilt, and whorl canker caused by Sphaeropsis sapinea (Syn: Diplodia pinea)
- Dothistroma needle-blight
- Dutch Elm Disease, Ophiostoma novo-ulmi
- Elm leaf spot, Phloeospora ulmi
- Elsinoe leaf spots of Eucalyptus
- Endocronartium harknessii, western gall rust
- Eucalyptus leaf spots
- Fusarium circinatum, pitch canker disease of pines
- Fusarium species in New Zealand
- Ganoderma lucidum
- Gloeopeniophorella sacrata
- Hainesia lythri, fungus disease of Eucalyptus seedlings
- Hysterographium fraxini, disease of Ash in New Zealand
- Junghuhnia root disease
- Kabatina thujae
- Kauri dieback caused by Phytophthora agathadicida
- Kirramyces eucalypti, septoria leaf blight
- Lecanosticta acicola, brown spot needle blight (BSNB) of Pinus species
- Lepteutypa podocarpi
- Leptographium spp.
- Lophodermium spp.
- Lupin blight, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides
- Marssonina species, poplar anthracnose
- Melampsora leaf rusts
- Meria laricis
- Microsphaera alphitoides, Oak Powdery Mildew
- Mundulla Yellows
- Mycosphaerella leaf spot of Eucalyptus
- Myrtle Rust
- Nectria flute canker in New Zealand
- Needle diseases of radiata pine in New Zealand
- Neonectria fuckeliana, nectria flute canker of radiata pine
- Nursery diseases
- Oak powdery mildew caused by Microsphaera alphitoides
- Ophiostoma novo-ulmi, Dutch elm disease
- Pachysacca pusilla on Eucalyptus
- Peniophora root and stem canker, Gloeopeniophorella sacrata
- Peridermium harknessii, western gall rust
- Phaeoacremonium rubrigenum
- Phaeocryptopus gaeumannii, Swiss needle cast disease of Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
- Phaeolus schweinitzii, exotic wood decay fungus
- Phaeophleospora eucalypti, septoria leaf blight of Eucalytpus
- Phaeothyriolum leaf spot of Eucalyptus
- Phloeospora ulmi, Elm leaf spot
- Phomopsis juniperivora
- Physiological needle-blight
- Phytophthora agathadicida, kauri dieback
- Phytophthora kernoviae
- Phytophthora pinifolia
- Phytophthora pluvialis
- Phytophthora podocarpi, totara needle blight
- Phytophthora ramorum
- Phytophthora, a disease of forestry in New Zealand
- Pitch canker disease of pines, caused by Fusarium circinatum
- Plane anthracnose, Apiognomonia veneta
- Poplar anthracnose caused by Marssonina species
- Pseudocercospora leaf spots of Eucalyptus
- Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae, bacterial leaf spot and stem canker
- Puccinia psidii, myrtle rust
- Red needle-cast
- Rhizosphaera spp.
- Rosellinia root rot
- Rugonectria canker fungus
- Sapstain
- Sarcostroma disease on Eucalyptus in New Zealand
- Seiridium cardinale, cypress canker
- Seiridium unicorne, cypress canker
- Septoria leaf blight of Eucalytpus, Phaeophleospora eucalypti
- Some minor fungi of conifers
- Sonderhenia leaf spots of Eucalyptus
- Sphaeropsis sapinea
- Sporothrix sp.
- Stigmina platani
- Stigmina thujina
- Swiss needle cast disease Phaeocryptopus gaeumannii
- Torula leaf spots of Eucalyptus
- Totara needle blight Phytophthora podocarpi
- Trimmatostroma leaf spots of Eucalyptus
- Upper Mid-Crown Yellowing (UMCY) of Radiata pine
- Uromycladium spp. Acacia rust
- Western gall rust, Endocronartium harknessii syn. Peridermium harknessii
Farm Forestry - Headlines
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- Update to the Forest Owners Association Road Engineering Manual: Forest Road Design for HPMVs.
Thursday, September 19, 2024
The NZFOA/NZFFA Transport and Logistics committee is pleased to announce the release of a new appendix to the New Zealand Forest Owners Road Engineering Manual, titled Forest Roads for High…
- Emissions Trading Scheme fee review a relief for cost-struck foresters
Thursday, February 29, 2024
The New Zealand Forest Owners Association says the review of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) fees is a relief for foresters facing excessive costs and loss of climate change action. …
- Planting trees on pasture can have a positive impact on soil health
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Rather than damaging soil in New Zealand, planting trees on pasture restores soil to be similar to its original condition. A recent news story highlighting changes in soils from converting…
- Forest plantation soils have benefits too
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
The Forest Owners Association (FOA) says the fact that soils under plantation forests are similar to soils under native trees, does not make them damaged, as a recent Newshub report has claimed.…
- Wilding Conifers - A legacy issue that needs continued, collaborative management
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Forest owners welcome the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s (PCE) acknowledgement that the presence of wilding conifers across New Zealand is largely a legacy issue, but caution against placing costs…
- Stock take of the commercially viable alternatives to Pinus radiata
Tuesday, October 03, 2023
Scion has published a “Stock Take of the Commercially Viable Alternatives to Pinus Radiata” for MPI, which reviews alternative species, their expected growth rates, climatic range, resilience to pests or…
- SNA regulations 'confusing ecological naivety'
Thursday, July 06, 2023
Forest Owners say the just released National Policy Statement on Indigenous Biodiversity (NPSIB) is a classic bureaucratic formula of confusing ecological naivety which will not help rare species and likely…
- Primary sector leadership not addressing economics as the real climate change issue
Tuesday, July 04, 2023
The immediate past president of the Farm Forestry Association (NZFFA) says the leaders of the primary sector and government are ineffectively tinkering with lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Graham West says the…
- Forest Owners hail ‘Biosecurity Hero’
Monday, May 22, 2023
The Forest Owners Association and Scion want more people to report suspicious imported wood products which might be infested with introduced wood and forest pests. FOA Biosecurity Manager, Brendan Gould,…
- Ministerial inquiry could have widespread implications for Tairawhiti community
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
The New Zealand Institute of Forestry says the just announced Tairawhiti land use inquiry is recommending measures which will stop the very activities which are vital for the region’s recovery.…
- Tairawhiti land use inquiry not addressing wider issues
Sunday, May 14, 2023
The Forest Owners Association says the Ministerial Inquiry into landuse in Tarawhiti has a core of practical recommendations, but has not addressed some more difficult and fundamental issues. President, Grant…
- Forest Owners say carbon-only forestry should be kept off productive land
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
The Forest Owners Association would like to see production forestry and farming on productive land – rather than this land used for carbon-only forests. It says this should be a…
- Opportunities from Trees Workshops - NZ Wide
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
The NZ Farm Forestry Association (NZFFA) is running 18 extension workshops in May and June with a target audience of landowners, or people with access to land, who are potential tree…
- Forest Owners back more trees for Tairawhiti
Sunday, April 16, 2023
The Forest Owners Association has told the Ministerial Inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti, that the region’s future has to include more trees for land stability. But it appreciates forest…
- Small scale woodlot owners have their say in Tairawhiti Land use Inquiry
Sunday, April 02, 2023
he outgoing President of the Farm Forestry Association says it has been vital for farm foresters to directly address the Ministerial Inquiry into forestry and other land use in Tairāwhiti.…
- Future forests need to be multifunctional to meet climate change in Tairawhiti
Thursday, March 16, 2023
The Farm Forestry Association says the just convened Ministerial Inquiry, into land-use across Tairāwhiti, needs to look closely at the tree options for shoring up vulnerable farm and former forest land in…
- Hill country farming campaign shows they think climate change is someone else’s problem
Thursday, March 09, 2023
The Forest Owners Association says the latest campaign against forestry, led by Beef+Lamb New Zealand and 50 Shades of Green, is climate change responsibility denial, and is dangerous in the…
- Forest Owners says two months too brief to look into the complex land issues in Tairawhiti.
Thursday, February 23, 2023
The Forest Owners Association says the two month long inquiry into land use in Tairāwhiti doesn’t give enough time or depth to find solutions. The Prime Minister, Chris Hipkins has…
- Forest Owners want genetic technology approved
Thursday, February 16, 2023
The Forest Owners Organisation says New Zealand needs to concentrate on the safety of genetic technology on a case-by-case basis rather than persisting with blanket bans. The FOA wants approval…
- Fieldays Forestry Hub to demonstrate that forestry is a solution
Monday, November 28, 2022
A range of solutions to farmers’ current problems will be on display in the Fieldays Forestry Hub near Hamilton between 30 November and 3 December, says Farm Forestry Association president,…
