Issues for land owners around converting pasture to forestry will be discussed at a Bay of Plenty event this Friday.
The Bay of Plenty branch of NZ Farm Forestry will hold a field day at Manawahe to go over what branch chairman Graham West says are "significant land use issues of today".
The programme will cover off incentives and grants, what to plant, whether to prune, carbon credits, insuring trees, grazing stock, tax implications and land use appraisals.
The venue is Viv Barr's Vista Farms property at 431 McIvor Road, where a 112ha block is being subdivided off for conversion to forestry.
Vista Farms is a 825ha dairy grazing block with close to 200ha of pine trees and some redwoods already planted on the steeper land.