Over the past couple of weeks I have been catching up with a number of rural bankers, they all are telling me they are keen to do business. While I assume you could “throw a blanket” over them in terms of what they offer in interest rates, I have noticed a variation in the budget [...]
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In New Zealand the Permanent Forest Sink Initiative (PFSI) enables forest investors to establish and create permanent or semi-permanent mixed aged forests with the objective of a substantial long term diversified income from the graduated harvest of logs, together with the sale of carbon credits in the form of internationally recognised Assigned Amount Units (AAU’s). It is suggested that some suitably located PFSI forests would be ideally suited as private hunting preserves for deer.
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In the past New Zealand forest investors have established forests which have involved substantial capital and operating expenditure from aquisition of the land through to harvesting in 25 to 30 years time. By joining the Emmissions Trading Scheme (ETS) investors are able to earn and sell carbon credits (in the form of NZU’s) for carbon naturally sequested by the new forest
creating a positive cash flow as early as the forth year following thinning operations.
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A brief background and history of pastoral farming in Hawke’s Bay together notes on the present deregulated pastoral economy and current productivity trends.
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Historical Background Within the Hawkes Bay region, orcharding, viticulture together with various other forms of cash and process food cropping have become increasingly important over the past 30 years, never the less, the pastoral industry; in particular beef and sheep farming continues to be the basis of the Hawke’s Bay rural economy, as it has done from the time [...]
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A brief introduction to the history and background of the wine industry in Hawke’s Bay together with some notes on current industry trends. Hawke’s Bay differs from other major wine grape growing regions within New Zealand not only through its distinctive soils and climate but also through the range of different growing wine growing micro climates found from the coast line to the inland plains through to inland river valleys and foothills. The major Hawke’s Bay wine grape growing areas are summarised in this article.
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A general background to Hawke’s Bay, its climate and geography, economic development, towns and cities.
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British farmers and migrants moving to New Zealand find an agricultural, economic and social environment that was founded primarily on British settlement over the past 150 years. Never the less, although New Zealand farmers now compete with British farmers with similar produce, the New Zealand farming industry differs from Britain in essential detail in almost every importaint aspect. This article attempts to outline the essential history to the rural settlent of New Zealand, how it differs in the 21st century and the essential geographic, economic and political reasons behind these differences.
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Travelling time from majorNew Zealand locations may be viewed at:
www.aatravel.co.nz/tourist/northisland_travellingtimesdistances.shtml
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A site of general interest to investors, migrants or visitors to Hawkes Bay is: http://www.investhawkesbay.com/investment_and_business/index.htm A very useful site with comprehensive links to the wine industry in Hawkes is: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/nzwinelinks/hawkesbay.htm
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