Market
On this page you will find information and resources to assist in marketing your native forest resource. There are a broad range of products and accessible markets for your timber. It is worth investigating the value of your product and scoping the range of available goods.
PFSQ Native Forest Stand Products and Marketing Guide
The intent of this guide is to provide information on the range of timber products that may be available from your native forests and the options you have to sell them. What are stumpage, farm gate/ramp price and mill gate price? What is the Timber Product Value Hierarchy? What forestry products will give you the best return on your timber?
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On Farm Value Adding. A cost comparative study.
In March 2001, a trial was implemented to compare the costs, returns and processes from value adding a percentage of the logs harvested (ie on-farm milling, processing and sales) from a block to the returns from the remainder of the logs sold by the landowner as a conventional sale.The aim of this trial was not to advocate value adding, but to test the process from
stand management through to harvest, processing and sales, examining the systems
used and then completing an economic analysis of the results.
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Maximising Returns From Private Native Forests.
Sam Slack wanted a sawmill from an early age. He attended field days and farmmanagement courses from when he was eleven and formed his philosophy on timberproduction from a broad field of information. As the family farm had large areas of standing timber, value adding that resource and broadening the enterprise base of thefamily business was a logical progression. Sam quickly realised the importance ofgood forest management in maintaining productivity to ensure their future resource and has incorporated this philosophy into a business the whole family is involved in.To download the full article Click here
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