Why OneForest?

Don’t compete with other growers, join them!

When you planted your nest egg in the early 1990s, so did hundreds of other small growers. You all had the same vision and now you’ll all be harvesting at roughly the same time.

This ‘Wave of Wood’ will flood the market with half a million hectares of uncommitted radiata pine wood supply.

More than half owned by small scale growers who hold under 100ha. Don’t compete with fellow growers for buyers or roading, logging and cartage crews. Join forces, join OneForest. Organised wood flows for logistics partners creates better planning, more business, more information sharing, new technology and increased profits.

OneForest creates the best return consistently for the forest owner, whilst creating synergies and coordination for logistics partners, enabling them to make the best consistent return.

THE WAVE OF WOOD

The early 1990’s planting boom means NZ will have a major increase in wood supply from 2016 onwards.
Most of these plantings are owned by small scale growers who hold under 100ha.

New Zealand will have half a million hectares of uncommitted radiata pine wood supply. Nearly 50% of total supply. They are owned by 15000 small scale forest owners.
Infrastructural bottlenecks, shortages in machinery and skills are certain under the current scenario. Medium and smaller growers will suffer most.

Future NZ Market Predictions – basic economics under ‘business as usual’ scenario

A near trebling in wood supply will depress prices from the domestic milling market. The export market can soak up the extra supply but

  • Increased wood supply will place strain on ports and access to shipping space.
  • Increased wood supply will place increase demand for roading, logging and cartage crews resulting in higher prices for these services.
  • Increased strain on infrastructure will result in harvesting ‘bottle necks’ making it harder to meet market demand resulting in lower revenues.

Higher costs. Lower revenues = depressed profits.