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NZ Fieldays’ entries for innovation awards open

30 October 2023
With entries now open for Fieldays 2024, which will take place from June 12 to 15, it’s that time of year for the shed tinkerers, ingenuity enthusiasts, and work shed warriors to mark their calendars. The Fieldays Innovations Awards are a celebration of creativity and resourcefu
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Wilding Pines conference highlights need for ongoing investment

30 October 2023
New Zealand Forest owners welcome the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s (PCE) acknowledgement that the presence of wilding conifers across New Zealand is largely a legacy issue, but caution against placing costs on foresters who are already investing in wilding control.
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Timber – pushing the boundaries; the NZ Timber Design Awards

20 October 2023
Since 1975, professionals across the New Zealand construction sector have been celebrating timber design and its usage and on 2 November 2023, the Timber Design Awards will be celebrated in Auckland. Source: Timberbiz After a three-year hiatus in the awards, Timber Unlimited is thrill
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NZ Nationals’ plan to grow forestry and wood processing

18 October 2023
Now that the Nationals have come to power in New Zealand it is ‘wait and see’ if they will honour the promises made for forestry. Before the election the Nationals said that New Zealand’s economy depended on primary production saying that’s how the country pays its way in the world an
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NZ’s local councils wield more power over new commercial forests

16 October 2023
Local councils in New Zealand will have more power to decide where new commercial forests – including carbon forests – are located, to reduce impacts on communities and the environment, according to New Zealand Environment Minister David Parker. Source: Timberbiz “New national standar
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Support services to help businesses build resilience

13 October 2023
A joint package of support services being delivered between October – December 2023 by FICA, Safetree and Eastland Wood Council will be available for forestry contractors and kaimahi in Tairawhiti/Gisborne and Hawkes Bay in New Zealand. Source: Timberbiz Funded by the New Zealand Mini
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Norske Skog announces sale of the Tasman mill industrial site

11 October 2023
Norske Skog has completed a transaction for the sale of the Tasman mill industrial site and remaining mill assets to the Australasian pulp, paper, and packaging group Oji Fibre Solutions for approximately NZ$10.9 million. Source: Timberbiz The sale of the mill site and realisation of
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Waging war against red needle cast

11 October 2023
New research and smart technologies are offering hope and solutions to foresters waging war against a silent enemy in New Zealand’s pine plantations. Source: Timberbiz Red needle cast (RNC), an unyielding fungal-like disease, has silently been wreaking havoc on pine trees in New Zeala
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Forestry seeking judicial review to halt ETS fees

11 October 2023
New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries’ new fees regime, which will increase costs for foresters participating in New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme by several thousand percent, will undermine climate action, put Iwi, landowners and farm foresters under significant fi
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NZ supports non-pine tree sawmilling

09 October 2023
New Zealand’s Government is supporting non-pine tree sawmilling and backing further job creation in sawmills in Rotorua and Whangarei, Forestry Minister Peeni Henare said. Source: Timberbiz “The Forestry and Wood Processing Industry Transformation Plan identified the need to add more
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