Farm Forestry

This comprehensive, straightforward, practical guide to farm forestry is designed for people who just want to get on with the business of growing and marketing trees, as well as for foresters and forest advisers. Fully illustrated with simple drawings and diagrams, it is written in language that farmers with little or no background in farm forestry willfind familiar and easy to follow. Spiral bound with coated pages that will survive a shower of rain, it’s a book you can chuck in the back of the ute for on-site guidance.

The book’s 41 chapters over 260 pages – each including a summarising SHAPSHOT – cover all the essential farm forestrytopics. There is a Tasmanian focus, but the handbook applies to a wide range of temperate Australian locations. Farm Forestry is divided into three parts.

• Part 1, The business of farm forestry, covers financing, certification, estate planning and the forest practices system.
• Part 2, Managing native farm forests, is about native forest silviculture, species and marketability, use of fire, forest health, biodiversity and conservation.
• Part 3, Plantation forests on farms, covers such topics as site preparation, weed control, fertilisers, matching species to site, pruning and thinning.

Download sample chapters
Three sample chapters can be downloaded

• "Financial aspects of Farm forestry" by John Lord, 2007 AFG National Farm Forestry of the Year. [Download pdf 517kb]
• "Using fire in farm forestry" by Dick Chuter, Forestry Tasmania. [Download pdf 808kb]
• "Planting" by Chris Beadle (CSIRO Forestry/Ensis) and Dugald Close (University of Tasmania) [Download pdf 596kb]

Download book review [Download pdf 550kb]
Book review was conducted by Robert Dyason, NSW farm forester and AFG Vice-President. Review is reproduced with permission from Australian Forest Growers Journal (Australian Forest Grower, Summer 2007 vol.29 No. 4).

This is a rare opportunity to own Australia’s best practical guide to farm forestry that will be your ‘bible’ throughout the life of your tree crop.

The price is $35.00 AUD + 10.00 postage*. The book can be purchased from the School of Plant Science in person or by sending us a purchase order.
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