![Revised plantation forestry method to help farmers, growers](https://pft.tas.gov.au/volumes/images/Native-Forest/_1335x600_crop_center-center_70_none/Trees_sunrise.jpg)
Revised plantation forestry method to help farmers, growers
Posted 21 January 2022
Plantation Planning On-farm benefits Economic benefits and markets Carbon benefits PFT Tree Alliance
The revised plantation forestry method will give the forestry industry more opportunities to earn revenue through projects.
The updated and revised Plantation Forestry Method under the Emissions Reduction Fund has been released by the Australian Government.
The revised method should make it easier for farmers, growers and the forestry sector to develop high-integrity carbon offsets and earn revenue while helping Australia achieve its emissions reduction targets.
Under the old method, landowners could earn carbon credits for:
- Establishment of a new plantation forest on land that had no plantation forest for the past seven years;
- Conversion of a short-rotation plantation to a long-rotation plantation;
Under the new method, in addition to the above two project activities, landowners can now also earn credits for;
- Continuing plantation forestry under circumstances where the land would have otherwise converted to non-forested land such as pasture;
- Transitioning a plantation forest to a permanent forest under circumstances where the land would have otherwise converted to non-forested land.
Other improvements to the method include increasing the range of species able to be grown in a plantation and making the eligibility requirements more flexible to meet landowner needs.
If you have a plantation forest, or are thinking of establishing a plantation forest, or even if you have harvested a plantation forest in the past seven years which could be re-established, then you may be eligible under the new arrangements.
More information here.
Share this Article
Latest Articles
-
01 July 2024
New Corporate Plan released
-
24 June 2024
Sustainability, profitability and resilience in focus
-
24 June 2024
New fee schedule for private timber reserves
Archives
- Red Hot Tips: Fire management for Tassie farmers
- Bioenergy: Fuelling industries with trees
- Harvesting trees: What you need to know
- Shelterbelts: How are they contributing to farm systems?
- Infill plantings and remnant vegetation: Why biodiversity depends on a thriving understory
- Plantation planning: The key to a successful plantation
- Exciting interactive forestry knowledge hub launched
- $450,000 farm forestry grant recipients revealed
- Formosa Estate virtual reality video - Shelterbelts increase pasture growth
- The Back Run demonstrate how integrating trees on farms can be done
- Advice on how to deal with windthrow of trees on your property
- Private Forests Tasmania welcomes new director, Dr Joanna Jones
- PFT staff reap benefits of 10th National Carbon Farming Conference and Expo
- Tasmanian primary producers, environment and industry to benefit from trees on farms
- Why farmers should plant trees now, and manage them for the mass timber buildings of the future
- PFT forester Stephen Clarke can help you capitalise on the extensive benefits of trees
- Private Forests Tasmania welcomes agriforester Molly Marshall
- Windbreaks and wildlife benefit better understood
- The effects of windbreaks on airflow, microclimates and crop yields
- Find out the socio-economic impacts of forestry
- Benefits of trees to reduce paddock water loss is considerable: Report
- Modelling the costs and benefits of agroforestry systems
- Market demand for plantation-grown wood - where we're at and where we're going
- PFT's Rob Smith offers his expertise to advance Tasmania and help the planet at the same time
- Find out what benefits are linked to planting trees on farms
- Understanding values behind farmer perceptions of trees on farms
- Report findings into economic impact of forestry in New Zealand released
- Farm-scale sediment sources: Tree harvesting, cattle and roads
- Study underway to improve durability to enhance the value of plantation, regrowth and regenerated eucalyptus
- Find out the biodiversity outcomes from eucalypt plantation expansion into agricultural landscapes
- Understand how trees improve the carbon balance - carbon investing improves your ROI from trees
- 10% multipurpose tree cover for every farm: A low risk, high opportunity first step