Steve Wyn Harris, Marlow Hill, Hawkes Bay branch July 2014
A 350-hectare drystock property with 34 hectares in forestry. Trees are mainly pine; also eucalypts, cypresses and a range of nut trees. Planting has been on steeper parts of farm…
McRae Trust, Wairoa, Hawkes Bay branch July 2014
This Trust-owned farm is set up to demonstrate best land use practices on east coast. hill land. Pine plantations are established on steeper, erodible land, plus there are widespread poplar…
Alec Olsen, Valhalla, Hawkes Bay branch July 2014
Trees play a big part on Alec's 300-hectare drystock rolling hill country property. Alec describes how his plantings bring multiple benefits including erosion control, shade, shelter, water quality, biodiversity, aesthetics…
Hawke’s Bay 2011 weather bomb (Access: unrestricted)
Marie Taylor, November 2012
Coastal Hawke’s Bay is still suffering the effects of last years April storms. More than 600 mm of rain in only 48 hours in late April 2011 caused massive damage…
Harvest time at Patangata in central Hawke’s Bay (Access: unrestricted)
Ian Cairns, February 2012
As a couple we had always enjoyed summer camping. We continued this tradition when our two girls were young. Wellington’s climate is not its strong point and we loved the…
Harvesting radiata pine at Tinui (Access: unrestricted)
Harriet Palmer, November 2011
In April 2011 we harvested a 1.5 hectare block of 1985 radiata pine. The block was planted by previous owners of the land under guidance of Wellington Regional Council, and…
Tinui Forest Park (Access: unrestricted)
John Purey-Cust, November 2011
The all-day visit to Tinui was one of the post-conference options offered at the end of the 2011 Masterton conference. I had only met its founder Allan Levett once, but…
Air New Zealand and the environment (Access: unrestricted)
Author not published, November 2011
Mangarara Station is a 610 hectare sheep and cattle farm in Elsthorpe, central Hawke’s Bay farmed by Greg and Rachel Hart. In 2008 they approached Air New Zealand about forming…
Logs a quarter of Napier exports (Access: unrestricted)
Jade Elstone, November 2011
The Port of Napier has been a part of the Hawke’s Bay landscape since 1875 when the Napier Harbour Board Act was passed. At that time the port was situated…
Pan Pac an important part of Hawke’s Bay economy (Access: unrestricted)
Jade Elstone, November 2011
Pan Pac Forest Products is an integrated forestry company based on the outskirts of Napier. Established in 1971, with operations starting in 1973, the company was originally a joint venture…
Conifer timber species choices (Access: unrestricted)
Kevin Thomsen, November 2011
Recent Hawke’s Bay farm forestry field days and articles have discussed the merits, or otherwise, of conifer species choices compared to macrocarpa. Firstly, let me be clear about macrocarpa. It…
Thriving forestry industry in Hawke’s Bay (Access: unrestricted)
Warwick Hesketh, November 2011
Hawke’s Bay is perhaps better known for its vineyards and orchards than it is for forestry. Framed by the Ruahine and Kaweka Ranges to the west and the Pacific Ocean…
‘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…
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…
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…
Forest Owners say ‘back the bat’ Tuesday, October 26, 2021
The Forest Owners Association is urging its members and the public to vote for the pekapeka – the Long-Tailed Bat - in the Forest and Bird sponsored Bird of the…