Farm Forestry New Zealand
Official website of the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association
Forestry 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- Tree decays
- 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
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Farm Forestry - Headlines
- Forest industry says Te Uru Rakau expansion vital for coherent forest development
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Forest industry leaders say the pre-Budget announcement by Forestry Minister Shane Jones of additional regional resources for Te Uru Rākau is potentially of great benefit to regional New Zealand. Farm…
- Emissions Trading announcement is incentive for farmers to plant trees
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Forest owners believe the just announced reform of the Emissions Trading Scheme will encourage farm foresters and hill country pastoral farmers to plant more trees. Farm Forestry Association Chair, Neil…
- PCE Report needs clarity from government
Monday, March 25, 2019
Forest Owners want clarity for what New Zealand plantation forestry is expected to deliver on climate change targets. The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton, has just issued a…
- Boosting forest harvesting productivity, safety and skills focus of new programme
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Boosting forest productivity, technology, safety and skills and reducing environmental impacts are at the heart of a new programme announced today. Te Māhi Ngahere I te Ao Hurihuri – Forestry Work…
- Awareness and perceptions of the forest growers commodity levy
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
The New Zealand Forest Owners Association (FOA), the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association (FFA), and the Forest Growers Levy Trust (FGLT) have commissioned research to help them understand the awareness…
- Land Information NZ develops wildling tool
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
A new tool to enable the public to help fight one of New Zealand’s most invasive species has been created by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ). Wilding Watch can be…
- $36 million investment approved to tackle regional erosion
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Te Uru Rākau (Forestry New Zealand) has announced funding of almost $36 million through the Hill Country Erosion Fund (HCEF) to enable much-needed erosion control in the regions. The HCEF…
- Forest Practice Guides launched
Thursday, October 04, 2018
The Forest Owners Association has today launched a series of 28 Forest Practice Guides. The Guides are a joint venture between the forest sector and MPI and were initiated as…
- Scion strategy to 2030: Right tree, right place, right purpose
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Scion publishes its strategy "Strategy to 2030: Right tree, right place, right purpose". Scion strategy to 2030
- Productivity Commission Report heralds massive land conversion to forestry
Monday, September 03, 2018
Forest owners say the Productivity Commission’s call for up to 2.8 million hectares of land to be turned into forests as a carbon sink would require implementing the most ambitious…
- Emissions Trading Scheme revisions timely and necessary for climate change goals
Monday, August 13, 2018
Forest owners are calling the proposed revisions to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) both timely and necessary if New Zealand is to hope to meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets.…
- Trees for steep erosion prone land report released
Monday, August 06, 2018
A report on alternative plantation forest species is now available on the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association website detailing the characteristics of a wide variety of tree species that are…
- One billion trees programme tree list
Wednesday, July 11, 2018
Planting the right tree in the right place is important because today’s tree planting decisions can have impacts that last for generations. One of the first decisions you have to…
- NZ Institute of Forestry launches new National Forest Policy
Sunday, July 08, 2018
New Zealand forestry professionals meeting for their annual conference in Nelson today will receive and discuss a new national forest policy. The document “Forest Policy for New Zealand” has been…
- Forest owners vow to deal with forest harvest slash
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Forest Owners say the industry is focused on measures to make sure a repeat of the recent floods transporting harvest debris out of forests and into Tolaga Bay isn’t repeated…
- Protecting our Eucalyptus trees
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Scion are undertaking community pre-consultation on a proposed biological control of the Eucalyptus tortoise beetle. Eucalyptus plantations are a recognisable part of New Zealand’s diversified forestry industry. They provide pulp and…
- Forest industry reputation damaged by mobilisation of forest harvest residues
Sunday, May 27, 2018
The successful prosecution of a forest management company by the Marlborough District Council has been endorsed by the Forest Owners Association. Merrill and Ring has been fined $39,000 and ordered…
- Biosecurity Levy Proposal, as it affects Plantation Forest Owners
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Consultation Document: The New Zealand Forest Owners Association (FOA) and the NZ Farm Forestry Association (FFA) acting on behalf of New Zealand plantation forest owners plans to apply to the…
- Advisory group has the right mix for huge land use challenge
Thursday, May 10, 2018
The Forest Owners Association President Peter Weir says Shane Jones’ just announced Advisory group has the right mix of forest industry background and experience to take the industry forward into…
- Forest industry backing judgment against forest companies
Monday, April 23, 2018
Forest industry associations are supporting penalties imposed in the District Court against Bay of Plenty forest owner Whitikau Holdings and two harvesting contractors. The companies pleaded guilty to charges laid…
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