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The future of the forest industry in Australia is with profitable private plantations.

There is no other future!

But the forest industry remains utterly and completely clueless how to create that future.

Having never in its history demonstrated a cent of commercial credibility, Australia’s forest industry remains on track for an irrelevant future.

Australia’s plantation estate still in decline

The latest statistics from the Federal department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry show Australia’s plantation estate continuing to decline.

Soon that Federal department will have to be renamed the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries.

And therein lies part of the industry’s problem. Growing wood should be regarded by the rural community as standard agricultural practice, but Australia is a million miles from that cultural and economic change.

It should not be Agriculture and Forestry! It should just be Agriculture!!

But a declining forest industry sends a very loud and clear signal to the rural community that growing wood is not commercially viable.

As such the industry decline will only snowball, unless the industry can demonstrate commercial credibility. To date the forest industry has refused to do so!

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/research-topics/forests/forest-economics/plantations-update

The future of the forest industry is NOT in the hands of politicians.

The forest industry is responsible for its own future.

So far there has been no evidence of this!