Farm Forestry New Zealand
Trees for Dairy Farms
- In summer, shade rules: The science behind why trees help maintain dairy productivity
Gwyneth Verkerk, February 2009
Cows feel the heat of summer more than many farmers realise. However they do need to use the energy normally required for physiological processes to cool down, so if they can…
- Dairy run-offs
Gabrielle Walton, February 2009
Over the last 12 months 28% of farm sales in the Bay of Plenty have been to some form of dairy runoff use. The reasons for purchasing a dairy runoff…
- Remember the four Ps: Planning for successful shelter systems
Ron Hinton, November 2008
The establishment of effective shelter systems, for dairy farms as well as any other farm, is a complex process deserving considerable planning and research before ringing the fencer or visiting…
- Dairy farm planting for shelter
Neil Cullen, November 2008
On many of the dairy conversions undertaken in the south, the first victim is often the farm’s existing trees. Sometimes there are valid reasons for removal of these trees. They…
- Earning brownie points for the dairy industry
Kyle Brennan, November 2008
Confucius said: ‘A wise man is one who plants a tree knowing he may never sit in its shade’. I know it sounds a bit philosophical, a bit heavy, a…
- Organics and farm forestry - a natural synergy?
Neil Cullen, August 2007
West of Hamilton, past the now closed Whatawhata research farm on the road to Raglan, is the Waitetuna Valley property of Mike Moss. We visited there on the fourth day…
- Integrating trees with high productivity irrigated dairying
Harley Gray, May 2006
Pencarrow is a 207-hectare dairy unit running 730 cows producing 313,000 kg milk solids. The farm is owned by Andy and Tricia Macfarlane. Andy has his own farm consultancy business,…
- Identifying Complementarities for the Dairy and Forestry Industries in the Central North Island
Monge, J., S. Velarde, R. Yao, S. Pizzirani and W. Parker (2015).
- The Potential for Poplar and Willow Silvopastoral Systems to Mitigate Nitrate Leaching from Intensive Agriculture in New Zealand
Franklin H., McEntee D. and Bloomberg M., 2016. In: Integrated Nutrient and Water Management For Sustainable Farming. (Eds L.D. Currie and R.Singh). Occasional Report No. 29. Fertilizer and Lime Research Centre, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand. 10 pages.
- Riparian zone/waterway management
Dairy NZ. Comprehensive resources from Dairy NZ. Developed for dairy farmers but also relevant to others. Includes a riparian planner tool with suggestions for planting riparian strips.
- Reuse of farm dairy effluent
Coppiced poplars and willows show potential for use in effluent irrigated systems
- Riparian zone coppicing of hardwoods for reduction of nitrate leaching from dairy farm effluent discharge
Ian McIvor, HortResearch 2004
- Coppiced hardwood trees for reuse of farm dairy effluent
Using Trees on Farms, Grass Research and Practice series No. 10, 2003, NZ Grassland Association
- Dairy shelter on the Canterbury Plains
Goulter, C. 2010. SFF Project L09/023.
Reviews current literature and explores how shelter and shade influence production in a dairy farming system on the Canterbury plains. Considers what value is there to replanting shelter trees on Canterbury dairy farms.
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- 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…
- Feds telling their members they can’t sell land for forestry
Sunday, July 05, 2020
The Forest Owners Association is startled that the new Federated Farmers Meat and Wool Chair is asking the government to restrict the right of farmer members to plant trees or…
- New business agreement with ForestX
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
NZFFA has negotiated a Referral and Collaboration Agreement with ForestX NZ Ltd, who provide transaction support for the sales of forests, land and standing timber. The seller pays a listing…
- Promised forest limit trashes zero carbon goals by at least 30,000 hectares a year
Monday, June 22, 2020
The Forest Owners Association says New Zealand’s carbon zero goal is seriously in doubt after a statement by the Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor, that the government would ‘need to…
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