Clarky's Comment - February
How well are the SMEs, that form the backbone of the NZ economy, doing in upskilling their labour force in the new Safety at Work Act and safety leadership?
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READ MOREThe domestic log market continues to have strong and consistent demand for all grades of logs from pruned to round-wood. There are still some regional shortages in quality structural and pruned logs. Whilst some sawmills have noticed demand tailing off from the Christchurch rebuild this has been replaced by the construction boom in Auckland.
READ MORELog price outlooks carried out over the past year show a consistent optimism in pruned log price expectations, but none of those expectations have been met.
READ MOREThe inauguration of President Trump has brought much in the way of controversial “Executive Orders”, “Presidential Memoranda”, and “Proclamations”.
READ MOREKevin Thomsen proves that good forest management and good market timing can produce exceptional financial outcomes on small parcels of land on the less desirable parts of traditional farms.
READ MOREMethyl bromide use for export log fumigation has been in the spotlight again.
READ MOREIn New Zealand, forestry product processors are seeing emerging demand for PEFC-certified product.
READ MORESafe Start-Up breakfasts are a great way for PF Olsen staff to get together with contractors and their employees to help reinforce safety at the outset of the New Year. They also afford an opportunity to look back at the previous year, celebrate the positives, and reinforce the Company’s positive goals for the year ahead.
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As we leave 2016 and look forward to 2017 I cannot help but feel positive about the NZ forestry sector and the role it can play in a prosperous NZ economy and society in the years ahead.
READ MOREBoth domestic and export log prices drifted in December with minor changes in some regions and to some customers, but overall little change. Both markets continue with strong positive sentiment. The domestic continues to be buoyed by a strong New Zealand property market and construction activity; the export market again is a strong-demand-from-China story.
READ MORETraders have been playing up the potential impact of Key’s resignation on carbon pricing, theorising that Labour has now got a better chance of winning the next election, and therefore the possibility of agriculture entering the ETS has increased.
READ MOREIn November, the second round of environmental training kicked off at Te Kura Whare in Taneatua, with the focus on the importance of water.
READ MORE44 is not only a great calibre of pig hunting rifle – it is also the number of years that Gary Inman, the winner of the PF Olsen Staff 2016 Health and Safety Management Award, has spent working in the Forest Industry.
READ MORECongratulations to Tony from Skyline Harvesting Ltd on achieving his level four Professional Tree Faller certification.
READ MORELocated 49km north-west of Gisborne in a proven high growth area.
READ MOREWe need more trees – what will it take?
READ MOREIt would probably be remiss not to mention the ascendency of Donald Trump to the coveted position of president-elect of the USA, but since every journalist, news anchor, talk show host, blogger and panelist is covering this ad nauseam, Wood Matters will spare readers more coverage. An immediate outcome (apart from mild nausea that such a thing could come about in the 21st century) is rallying USA and Asian share markets and a weaker NZ$. Both, on face value, are supportive of the log market.
READ MOREA lot happens in China in 12 months, the period of time since your Wood Matters editor was last in China.
READ MOREDespite future uncertainty in the United States, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it’s full steam ahead for his government’s environmental plan, including a national carbon price.
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