Private Forestry

Farm Forestry Notes

These Farm Forestry Notes provide information on a wide range of issues in relation to forestry on private land, including:

General Information	Species
Environmental Benefits	Stand Management
Fire & Drought	Pests & Diseases
Planning & Establishment	Harvesting & Marketing
Regional Info

Also available are North Central region Species profiles and selected Landcare Notes which may useful to your farm forestry enterprise.

Please note that you will need Acrobat Reader (external link) to download hardcopies of these notes.

General

• Farm forestry / agroforestry: What is it? (PDF 59KB)
• Farm forestry: its role in rural property management
• Forest property rights (PDF 52KB)
• Glossary of farm forestry terms (PDF 96KB)
• Introducing timberbelts (PDF 121KB)
• Introduction to commercial farm trees
• Properties of firewood

• Carbon rights (PDF 42 kb) See other information about plantations and climate change
• Environmental benefits of farm forestry in the Port Phillip region (PDF 1.1MB)
• Firewood and Woody Biomass and their Role in Greenhouse Gas Reduction (PDF 103KB)
• Using farm forestry to control weeds - a serrated tussock case study (PDF 341KB)

• Farm forestry during a drought (PDF 44KB)
• Fire risk management for farm forestry (PDF 53KB)
• Forest industry brigages (PDF 5KB)
• Wildfire and farm forestry - being prepared, learning from the past (PDF 197KB)

• Farm forestry - selecting the right tree (PDF 44KB)
• Growing Plantation Firewood (PDF 121KB)
• Growing trees for sawlogs and specialty products (PDF 176KB)
• Ordering planting stock for commercial tree establishment (PDF 83KB)
• Planning for timber plantations (PDF 121KB)
• Planting stock specifications (PDF 98KB)
• Propagation of planting stock (PDF 81KB)
• Radiata pine: Planning and establishment
• Site preparation for farm forestry
• Fertiliser use in farm forestry (PDF 53KB)
• Timberbelt design (PDF 142KB)
• Weed control for farm forestry plantations

• Farm forestry opportunities in the Port Phillip region (PDF 383KB)
• Overview to regional species lists (PDF 38KB)
• Cardinia Shire (PDF 76KB)
• Corangamite (PDF 57KB)
• Dryland area (PDF 40KB)
• Dryland river red gum forests (PDF 78KB)
• Gippsland (PDF 40KB)
• Irrigated areas in the southern Murray-Darling Basin (PDF 41KB)
• Northeast Victoria (PDF 49KB)
• Southwest Victoria (PDF 44KB)

• Black wattle (PDF 87KB)
• Blackwood (PDF 157KB)
• Blue gum (PDF 116KB)
• Broombush (PDF 163KB)
• Christmas trees - overview
• Cypress (PDF 140KB)
• Maritime pine (PDF 106KB)
• Radiata pine
• Red ironbark (PDF 144KB)
• Shining gum (PDF 94KB)
• Slender cypress-pine (PDF 148KB)
• Southern mahogany
• Spotted gum (PDF 124KB)
• Sugar gum
• Swamp yate (PDF 125KB)
• Sydney blue gum (PDF 145KB)

• Case study: Managing your farm forestry trees - what's your plan? (PDF 352KB)
• Christmas trees - shearing techniques (PDF 52KB)
• Dryland river red gum silviculture (PDF 54KB)
• Growing cut Christmas trees (PDF 41KB)
• Guide to early age 'form' pruning
• Managing coppice in eucalypt plantations
• Managing cypress for clearwood production
• Mechanical high pruning
• Private Native Forestry (36KB)
• Productive reuse of effluent on tree plantations

• Defoliation - effects on plantation eucalypt growth (PDF 513KB)
• Glossary & terms used in forestry entomology (PDF 50KB)
• Insect pests - control
• Insect pests - life histories and habits
• Insect pests of young eucalypt plantations
• Psyllid biology and eucalypt defoliation
• Psyllids and their control
• The definition and language of forest entomology

• Marketing strategies for farm forestry (PDF 53KB)
• Planning to harvest safely (PDF 54KB)
• Timber processors and markets in the Port Phillip region (PDF 142KB)
• When is the best time to harvest blue gum? (PDF 41KB)

• Direct seeding of trees and shrubs for the northern hill country of Victoria
• Guide to coastal planting in Victoria
• Hand direct seeding
• How to collect seed from native trees and shrubs
• Lets plant trees: 1
• Lets plant trees: 2
• Natural regeneration
• Planting native vegetation in the Shepparton Irrigation Region
• Tree planting and after-care
• Using indigenous plants
• Using mulch to establish plants
• Using trees to control groundwater recharge: how many are enough?
• Watercourse revegetation using indigenous plants
• What is direct seeding?
• What permit do you need to collect local seed?
• Willows along watercourses: their impact compared to natives