Forest Growers Research Conference 2025 Highlights 14-16 October 2025
The Forest Growers Research Conference, The Science of What’s Next, was held between 14–16 October 2025 in Auckland, attracting over 120 delegates from across the
The overarching strategic framework for R&D investment is provided in the Science and Innovation Strategy 2020–2035. This identifies three core themes for Forestry science and innovation with the target level of investment from the forest growers’ levy:
The current research portfolio covers the key parts of the forestry value chain, from tree improvement, propagation and nurseries, to establishment, management, harvesting, transport and logistics, and managing for risk and uncertainty.
Achieving both the forest growers’ vision and the supporting science and innovation vision requires :
Our science and innovation investment framework is described under three highly interconnected themes:
Ensuring that we increase profitability from our current main commercial species – radiata pine and Douglas-fir.
Ensuring the long-term sustainability of commercial forestry through realising value from emerging species (both exotic and indigenous) and developing new models for forestry.
Future-proofing commercial forest growing in New Zealand.
Science and Innovation are crucial if forestry is to deliver on the Forestry Roadmap and position forests as our most strategic asset by 2050.
The Forestry Roadmap 2020-2050
The forest growers vision for 2050 is that : “Forestry will be New Zealand’s number one primary sector and will exemplify the best plantation forest management in the world”.
The Forest Growers Research Conference, The Science of What’s Next, was held between 14–16 October 2025 in Auckland, attracting over 120 delegates from across the
Forest Growers Research (FGR) announced the winners of its 2025 Awards, at the FGR Annual Conference, held in Auckland 14th-16th October. The Science Awards recognises
In collaboration with Pan Pac Forest Products, the Precision Silviculture Programme, led by Forest Growers Research is adapting the PlantMax to a new base machine
