Comparing the profitability of farming and forestry | Land Portal

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Date of publication: 
August 2010
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ISBN / Resource ID: 
OSF_preprint:46212-402-10F

This paper updates an analysis of returns from major productive land uses in New Zealand carried out in 2008. Trends in profitability over time are shown, and a preliminary investigation of the relationship between land-use change towards forestry (new land planting) and forestry profitability is described.

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Author(s), editor(s), contributor(s): 

David Evison

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