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Pinus radiata is Australia’s most valuable softwood resource and extremely susceptible to mortality from pest Sirex – a wood wasp known to attack pine trees, and the most serious invasive so…
Pinus radiata is Australia’s most valuable softwood resource and extremely susceptible to mortality from pest Sirex – a wood wasp known to attack pine trees, and the most serious invasive so…
In 2017, FWPA-supported research led to the development of the ProFert for Pine tool, which was designed to improve the capacity of softwood growers to effectively predict the success of var…
The Australian Government has launched a new approach for all Research and Development Corporations (RDCs) to better engage with stakeholders, capture insights, identify the most promis…
Optimising productivity and profitability through informed choices is the focus of a range of research projects around Australia to support hardwood plantations. Optimising productivi…
Australia’s combined annual exports of hardwood and softwood woodchips totalled 5.766 million bdmt year-ended January 2023. Hardwood chips totalled 4.646 million bdmt, 7.0% higher than…
Due to trade disruption issues with China which commenced in November 2020, the softwood log export trade over the past three years has declined from 3.3 million m3 to around one ninth of that (…
ANZ Log Export Price Index down in December 2022 IndustryEdge’s benchmark Australian and New Zealand Export Log Price Index fell throughout 2022. By December, the price index had fallen to U…
Easing of market conditions may be reflected in sawn softwood timber imports which totalled 39,535m3 in January 2023. This is the second lowest January result for the six years from 2018 and i…