Announcing the 2026 FGR Harvesting Micro Innovation Challenge Winner
Across the forestry sector, crews are managing environmental compliance, field observations, mapping, and operational data in remote locations – often using tools that were never
A third of New Zealand’s plantation forest estate is in the hands of woodlot owners. Harvesting can be a stressful time for some woodlot owners with little knowledge and experience of this phase of the woodlot management cycle. The 15-video series, “How to market and harvest your woodlot for profit”, attempts to provide woodlot owners with sufficient information to help them successfully achieve their woodlot harvesting goals. The videos cover such topics as; how to determine what’s in your woodlot, how to go about selling what you’ve got, safety requirements, how to best manage the environment, harvesting and transportation systems suitable for woodlots, and things you can do to maximise your profitability. The series concludes with two case studies of woodlot harvesting, and a description of a new tool to determine expected net revenues and their sensitivity to key woodlot variables.
Across the forestry sector, crews are managing environmental compliance, field observations, mapping, and operational data in remote locations – often using tools that were never
Forest Growers Research (FGR), NZFOA and the Forest Growers Levy Trust (FGLT) participated in this year’s Fieldays Forestry Hub, joining more than 40 forestry and
Mitch White from Aspect Forestry shares the innovation journey behind tackling steep-slope planting in the Top of the South using the Risutec planting machine. Mechanised