Agroforestry News

Agroforestry is about farmers growing trees for conservation and profit. For more than 10 years, the Agroforestry News magazine has been providing practical and up-to-date information on all aspects of agroforestry and farm tree growing.

Agroforestry News is owned and managed by a community group representing the interests of farmers who grow trees. The group is incorporated through the Victorian Farmers Federation's Farm Trees and Landcare Association. The views expressed are those of individuals, most of whom grow and manage trees on their own land. There is always plenty of debate about what to grow and how to manage it, about markets for tree productions and services, and about how governments and others can support farmers who want to grow trees to enhance their properties and contribute repairing the land building truly environmentally sustainable rural landscapes.

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CURRENT EDITION

Number 58: Eucalypt Sawlogs - Are we barking up the wrong tree?

CONTENTS:

- Case Study - Geoff and Sasha North, WA Sawlog growers
- Rethinking the long rotation paradig, Graeme Anderson
- Growing Blue Gum for sawlogs in WA, Bob Hingston
- New Zealand eucalypts, Richard Davies Colley
- Corymbia hybrids, establishment, Diameter:BA ratios and more

RECENT EDITIONS

Number 58: Timber production in waterways: no-go or win-win?

CONTENTS:

- Series of articles summarising 13 years of riparian research supported by Land and Water Australia covering logs in waterways, sediment and nutrient trapping, stock exclusion methods, willows, stream bank stability, aquatic fauna and more

- Case studies on growing timber in riparian zones on farms

- Lots of letters from readers and more

Number 57: Time for agroforestry to take centre stage

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CONTENTS:

- Two conferences with one vision: time for agroforestry to take the middle ground
- Extracts from the International Landcare conforence proceedings
- Extracts from the Australian Forest Growers proceedings
- Fodder trees back on the agenda
- Milling options for farm-grown and salvage timber

Number 56: Increasing farm productivity - integrating trees into farming systems

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CONTENTS:

- Have we forgotten about trees for farm productivity - Rowan Reid
- Trees for farm productivity - Andrew Stewart  
- Still a place for timber in agriculture - Rod Bird
- Grass grows better under wide spaced River Sheoak - Rod Bird and others
- Tree strip shelter boosts farm productivity up to 30% - Chris Chilcott
- Managing eucalypts for sawlogs? Beware of poor management advice - Jon Lambert  
- Managing woody veg on farm by stem injection - Bill Kerruish
- A (sensible) proposal for stewardship support for private native forest owners - SC Group
- Field day highlights enviornmental benefits of plantations - Roger Cross
- A new way to study forest science at Melbourne University  
- Smart use of eucalypt plantations for CO2 trade - The TreeSmart Program

Number 55: Tree growing - the secret to a happy life

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CONTENTS:

- The secret to a happy life - Dr Nigel Strauss , Psychiatrist, about how growing trees is good for the soul
- More on ripping and mounding  
- John Woodley responds: Its a debate about nothing - ripping and mounding is just part of good management
- John Goy responds: For my money it is worth it.
- Rowan reports results on the impact of ripping and mounding on branch size
- Successful establishment: Trevor Booth (CSIRO-ENSIS) presents early results on a national review of establishment methods
- Fertiliser does make a different: Bruce Sonogan present results showing fertiliser responses in eucalypt establishment
- Herbicides: Andrew Lang tells of his experiences overspraying trees with herbicides for summer weed control
- High Pruning: Simon Noble continues the discussion about using machines to high prune eucalypts
- Bell Miners: John Hunter on role of Bell Miners on eucalypt dieback.
- Australian Blackwood: Report on the recent Acacia melanoxylon workshop held in Victoria
- Superior seed of low rainfall eucalypts: Rod Bird and Tim Jackson - results of Spotted Gum and Sugar Gum provenance trials

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