Forest
harvesting
Sales and Marketing
Our harvesting and marketing team can look after all aspects of your forest harvest, ensuring the best value recovery of your forest investment.
Log Marketing can help you get the most from your forest or woodlot investment. Your overall costs are managed throughout the harvesting of your forest, beginning with the best harvesting plan for your individual requirement.
We take time to understand your expectations, and make clear what Log Marketing has to offer as your forest harvesting and marketing contractor.
Selecting the correct harvesting method and equipment is crucial. With the aid of topographical maps and aerial photography, Log Marketing engineers the harvesting to maximise production and minimise costs and environmental damage.
We begin forest inventories for tender evaluation and the calculation of stumpages on forest blocks. The wood is purchased not only from the tender system, but from the private farm forester as well.
We then undertake marketing the produce into the various log markets, depending on the individual requirements of each client. Often clients join forces with Log Marketing in joint venture pricing arrangements prior to submission of the tender. This gives the log purchaser more comfort in terms of fixing log prices and volumes.
LOG MARKETING
CUTTING STRATEGY
Log Marketing has the widest range of log specifications offered in the region, with a more flexible grade/cut than other sawmills.
LOG MARKETING (Niagara & Craigpine) Mill & Export
Total Stem Value $506.52
Export Only
TOTAL STEM VALUE $386.03
DIFFERENCE IN VALUE OF $120.49 OR 31%
*BASED ON AVERAGE PRICE OVER 2023 CALENDAR YEAR.
*PRICES LISTED ARE GROSS PRICES (OPERATIONAL COSTS INCLUDING LOGGING/CARTAGE TO BE DEDUCTED)
Benefits of Niagara | Craigpine Cutting Strategy over Export Options
More available cut length options in sawlogs, cutting 3.7/4.0/4.3/4.6/4.9/5.2/5.5/5.8 & 6.1m lengths as against export equivalent where typically 3.9/ 5.2 or 5.9m lengths.
Larger maximum knot size allowance in sawmill L grade (15cm)
as against typical export equivalent A grade (10-12cm).
That results in an increased percentage of higher value grades being
recovered = increased return to Forest Owner.
We guarantee to make the process of buying, selling and transporting logs both stress-free and lucrative for all our customers.
How We Can help?
Providing procurement of logs for local processing plants and exporting customers.
Servicing and encouraging local domestic markets over export markets.
Purchasing woodlot and plantation trees from growers or providing a brokerage service for the harvesting and sale of a grower’s tree crop.
For forest harvesting and marketing service contact Log Marketing today!
Address
92 Kennington Road, Kennington
Invercargill 9871
Postal Address
P O Box 542, Invercargill 9840