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DroneSeed plants 800 seeds per hour

30 June 2016
If Oregon startup DroneSeed has its way, foresters in the Pacific Northwest may be in for a surprise the next time they are out in the field. Instead of wandering into a team of people working to replant trees, they could be bombarded from above by a suite of seed-blasting drones depl
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Summit Forests chooses Trimble’s

30 June 2016
Summit Forests New Zealand Limited has selected Trimble’s Land Resource Manager (LRM) solution to enhance its operational flexibility and support process reengineering. Source: Lesprom Summit plans to streamline both spatial and attribute business processes with Trimble’s
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Symposium to prepare for forest climate change

30 June 2016
CSIRO, ANU and Western Sydney University is running a symposium about forest industry preparedness for climate change: opportunities from genetics and genomics. Source: Timberbiz This is being held under the auspices of the Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF) project ‘Forests f
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Research report from FRAME 2016

30 June 2016
A new EY research report titled Megatrends and the Australian Forest and Wood Product Sector was launched at FRAME 2016. Source: Timberbiz Launched on 23 May by Senator the Hon Anne Ruston, this is an analysis by the global consultancy EY, that shows that the Australian forest and woo
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5000 trees to revive Monaro

30 June 2016
An ambitious tree planting program has begun on the Monaro in southern New South Wales to counter the effect of an extremely large tree dieback episode in the region. Source: ABC News Dieback has killed the native eucalypt species, leaving the hills south of Cooma scarred with the rem
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Lumbercube mill to close

30 June 2016
Lumbercube timber mill in Rotorua, New Zealand, which produces square logs will shut putting about 80 jobs at risk. Source: Stuff NZ The mill, which is owned by Pedersen Group, was established in 2014. The business was opened with the intention to add value the export log market and m
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Dueling reports over VicForests

30 June 2016
The viability of Victoria’s government-owned native forestry business has been thrown into doubt by a high-level analysis concluding it takes more than $5 million of investment in roads, machinery and equipment to create a single timber job. Source: The Age A confidential report
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Whaganui forestry portfolio for sale

30 June 2016
The value of the Whanganui District Council forestry portfolio, coupled with its carbon credits, could reap a harvest of more than $10 million. Source: The New Zealand Herald The council’s joint forestry committee will meet with both the sale of about 1000ha of its plantations a
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Forest owners protect the environment

30 June 2016
The Forest Owners Association in New Zealand says there are forest-based solutions to some of the issues raised in a report released by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Dr Jan Wright. Source: Timberbiz The Chair of the joint Forest Owners and New Zealand Farm Forest
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Australia imports less paper products

30 June 2016
Imports of paperboard and paper products to Australia from China fell dramatically in March, down 47.5% on the previous month, to their lowest monthly level in three years. Source: Timberbiz Paper product imports from China were valued at AU$40.4 million for the month of March. This h
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