Forest Growers Research Conference 2025 Highlights 14-16 October 2025
Check out the highlights; speaker presentations, photos and more of the Forest Growers Research Annual Conference. The FGR 2025 conference, The Science of What’s Next,
Forest Growers Research is your vehicle for research and innovation across the forestry value chain—from seed to product. And across the landscape—from farm woodlot to commercial plantation. We manage the design, delivery and dissemination of forestry research to drive real change for the sector.
Working with you every step of the way, we help ensure forestry’s long-term economic, environmental and social sustainability in New Zealand. Our world is changing, let’s work together for a resilient future.
Check out the highlights; speaker presentations, photos and more of the Forest Growers Research Annual Conference. The FGR 2025 conference, The Science of What’s Next,
Forest Growers Research and its collaborators have been working hard over the last 12 months to support the forestry industry. The 2025 FGR Annual Science
University of Canterbury School of Forestry is running a series of Forest Engineering Workshops in Rotorua from 2-5 June 2026. These one-day courses are designed
As Chemical Thinning becomes increasingly popular amongst New Zealand forest managers, the Precision Silviculture Programme in partnership with BSI | Scion Group and Matariki Forests
FGR assisted Hamish Scown of Pan Pac Forest Products Ltd with recent trials of using shredded wood from forestry debris as temporary roading aggregate. Three
At the Forest Growers Research Annual Conference in October 2025, Paul Milliken of Applied Teleoperation Ltd (ATL) reviewed two innovations in cable yarding: a teleoperation
In production forestry, radiata pine is grown at scale using both containerised and bareroot production systems. Seedlings are typically lifted, graded, and selected manually using
