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An innovative high-tech approach to forestry management could transform New Zealand’s forestry industry, Forestry Minister Stuart Nash and Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor announced today.

Seeing plastic tree protectors in the forest prompted a Christchurch cardboard packaging manufacturer to try something different - and now the business is booming.

Last issue we asked Rural News readers whether they supported the Groundswell NZ protests on Friday 16 July.

Spaces are filling fast for a workshop being held in Te Kūiti in February on integrating trees and forests into the farm business.

The Government will provide up to $1.69 million through the One Billion Trees programme to Māori landowners.

John Jackson on the ugly side of forestry.

New Zealand's primary sector has added steel to the country’s economy in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a recently released report.

Federated Farmers is asking the government to restrict the right of its farmer members to plant trees or sell their land for forestry, claims the NZ Forest Owners Association (NZFOA).

If elected next term, Labour says it will require resource consent for any conversion of highly productive farmland into forestry.

If elected next term, Labour says it will require resource consent for any conversion of highly productive farmland into forestry.