ForestSAT 2024
ForestSAT 2024, proudly hosted here in Rotorua and brought to us through an amazing effort by Scion. Forest Growers Research (FGR) and the Precision Silviculture
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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 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”.
ForestSAT 2024, proudly hosted here in Rotorua and brought to us through an amazing effort by Scion. Forest Growers Research (FGR) and the Precision Silviculture
Our Precision Silviculture Programme, Planting and Establishment team, has been out and about supporting innovation in mechanised planting in New Zealand. In September we visited
If you own a plantation forest, small or large, you pay a levy on the volume of wood material sold. Without the levy, the forest
