Enough with the forestry scare tacticsFriday 6 Jun 2025
According to them, pines – not decades of structural and economic realities – are gutting the sheep industry. It’s a convenient but misleading scapegoat. The facts don’t match the rhetoric. In 2002, New Zealand had 1.78 million hectares of exotic forest. By 2020, that had decreased to 1.6 million ha. A 2024 study by Orme & Associates (commissioned by Beef + Lamb NZ) found 146,331 ha of sheep and beef land was sold for forestry conversion from 2021 to mid-2024 – based on intentions, not actual planting, and including pending sales. Even assuming all that land was planted, the total exotic forest estate would sit at around 1.75 million ha – still below 2002 levels. More >> Source: Farmers Weekly | ||
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