Due to the increase in export log prices the PF Olsen Log Price Index increased by $1 in November to $120. The index is currently $1 below the two-year average, $4 below the three-year average, and $3 below the five-year average.
READ MOREA joint bid by the New Zealand Exchange (NZX) and the European Energy Exchange (EEX) has been selected to build and operate the government’s auction service for the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (NZETS). Development of the auction platform is expected to be completed by the first scheduled auction in March 2021.
READ MOREPF Olsen and One Forty One Kaituna Sawmill have been nominated in the Cawthron Environmental Awards.
READ MOREDomestic demand for logs and sawn timber remains strong with regional differences in log supply and demand due to previous mill closures, and increased harvest volumes in the better weather conditions.
READ MOREDuring September NZU prices rose from $34 to just over $35, and have settled (as at early October) at around $34.85.
READ MOREForestry Rights are legal rights granted by the landowner to someone else to establish, maintain and harvest a forest. The landowner is paid an annual rental or share of revenue.
READ MOREPF Olsen is very pleased to announce the appointment of Ross Larcombe as our new CEO.
READ MOREDomestic demand for logs and sawn timber remains strong with many mills operating extra shifts to increase supply. Saw millers in general are quite optimistic.
READ MOREAfter dropping a little to around $33.50 in early August, prices have since remained relatively stable around the $34.00 mark.
READ MORECongratulations to Summerhill Forest, on achieving FSC certification and joining the PF Olsen Group Scheme.
READ MOREEach year Forest Growers Research organise a conference to communicate the outcomes of industry funded science and innovation projects to forest industry and other stakeholders
READ MOREForestry and farming are not mutually exclusive land uses at the strategic level and New Zealand needs both functioning in their place to improve economic resilience and biodiversity.
READ MOREDomestic demand for logs and sawn timber remains strong while the longer-term forecasts are uncertain. New Zealand sawmillers are “cautiously optimistic” about the future.
READ MOREAfter seeing NZU prices fall by almost a dollar in early July on the back of Tiwai Point’s news of an intended closure, prices have rallied again, with prices recovering to a new high of $34.15 in recent days.
READ MOREFGR are participating in a MPI Sustainable Food and Fibre Fund project along with Dairy NZ, NZ Beef and Lamb, the NZ Farm Forestry Association and iwi land owners.
READ MOREWood Matters readers may be interested in the latest ANZ Research Agri Focus report, “All that glitters is gold”.
READ MOREA new initiative is underway to create an industry entity for people working in New Zealand’s specialty timber industry.
READ MOREScion’s Rural Fire Group carried out a number of experimental burns in wheat stubble paddocks in 2019, and a major activity this year was organising a series of controlled fires in the Rakaia Gorge involving highly flammable gorse vegetation.
READ MOREAfter a prolonged and fairly controversial journey, the new National Policy Statement for Freshwater, and National Environmental Standard for Freshwater came into being just days before the parliamentary session came to an end.
READ MOREWe appear to be headed for full circle on NZ land use regulation.
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