RNZ
International demand for pruned logs from New Zealand is the highest ever seen by a forest manager with 30 years of experience in the sector.
John Turkington owns John Turkington Forestry - a Manawatū company that plants, manages, harvests and markets radiata pine, and he cannot understand why forest owners do not prune plantation forests.
For 15 years China had been a strong market for low-value, unpruned logs, but that was not the case now and was unlikely to be in the future, he said.
“Things are fundamentally changed in my view, in China. And this is where we are going to be at,” Turkington said.