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'A lot of issues': Damien O'Connor on carbon farming
Govt committed to tweaking legislation as pine trees "not appropriate" permanent forests.
Falling international log prices hurting Northland forestry contractors
A glut in log supply to China means an uncertain future for Northland forestry crew.
Commodity price index shows lag in forestry, horticulture returns
Stronger dairy, meat, aluminium prices not enough to offset lower forestry & hort returns.
Planting workshop prompts concerns in Tararua
Farmers already in an afforestation programme.
Pete Fitz-Herbert: My thoughts on carbon farming
Opinion: Manawatū farmer Pete Fitz-Herbert is worried about carbon farming.
Christopher Luxon on Three Waters and carbon farming
Luxon's adjournment debate joke about Three Waters came from a place of concern.
Forestry fatality 'sad, unnecessary' reality of industry, says union
Coroner says participation of forestry personnel needed to develop fit-for-purpose ACOP.
Northland Forestry Award winners announced
Northland Forestry Award winners impress judges
Forestry on farms fires up speakers
"Plantation forestry - threat or opportunity?" debate in Dunedin last week.
Report funded to inform councils on farmland use and forestry
"We need to get our facts straight on what's actually happening out there."
'We need urgent solutions now': Carbon farming worries B+LNZ
B+L NZ says growing chorus of voices against unchecked carbon farming can't be ignored.
Why Jeremy Rookes sold his farm 'to pine trees'
Central Hawke's Bay farmer concerned North Island land is being lost to carbon farming.
Only part load of logs possible from Dunedin wharf
Logs were trucked on SH88 for shipping from the deeper waters of Port Chalmers.
'Sobering': Seabed study flings mud at farmers and foresters
Run-off from dairy farms and forestry blocks smothering Marlborough Sounds seabed.
Weekday log train services between Napier and Wairoa to start Monday
The number of log trains between Wairoa and Napier will go from two to five next week.
Napier Port's use of methyl bromide to cease
Logs methyl bromide fumigation gets the axe as port strives to improve safety.
Fear forestry conversions impacting farming communities
"It's going to be the death of sheep and beef farming as we know it."
Storms destroy Lord of the Rings pine forest
About 30 trees felled from Tarras pine plantation used in The Fellowship of The Rings.
'Boom to bust': Timber merchants wary as demand hits record levels
The timber 'boom to bust' scenario was already pre-determined by activity overseas.
Forestry leaders slam study of impact by Wairoa and Tararua councils
Forestry leaders say study will "put every obstacle in the way" of climate change goals.
Netherlands group gets go-ahead to buy Catlins station for forestry
Area of 330ha at Wisp Hill will soon be planted with radiata pine seedlings.
Fallen trees pose more headaches for flood-hit farmers
High winds have brought down nearly 100 trees on sharemilker Rebecca Miller's property.
'Significant' changes for methyl bromide use underwhelm
Changes are coming for use of the gas at the Port of Tauranga but locals aren't impressed.
Austrian company given consent to buy 2018ha farm for forestry conversion
More farmland is set to be converted into forestry in the Waitaki.
Opinion: Was the Govt outgunned on the ETS?
Opinion: Govt has accidentally created an ETS where prices are determined by speculators.
Five more overseas companies approved to buy forestry or farm land
Some farming groups concerned jobs and productive farm land are being lost.
Pāmu reports a $29 million after tax profit
Positive result means Pāmu will pay a $5m dividend to its shareholder - the NZ Government.
Napier Port lifts Q3 earnings, no end in sight for supply chain disruption
Log exports have boosted Napier Port's Q3 earnings.
Danone heading for a greener future with biomass boiler
Danone Nutricia New Zealand aims to be 100 per cent carbon neutral by 2050.
Plant nurseries rush to save seedlings on eve of lockdown
Lockdown has come at one of the worst possible times for nurseries.
Scholarship to aid student's urban forests research
The content of the project is unlike any other research in the world today
Forestry conversion data shows carbon offset limits needed, says Beef+Lamb
Independent research shows farmland sales driven by increase in carbon price.