Some people don't like native forest harvesting, some don't like large scale plantation but growing and harvesting timber trees on farms seems to meet with wide approval.

I'm on the committee of the Gippsland Agroforestry Network. One of our members has some trees on a block near Korumburra he has grown from seedling and and would like to harvest and sell. He estimates he has 180 Eucalyptus nitens (Shining Gum), 285 Eucalyptus regnans (Mountain Ash) and 665 Eucalyptus globulus (Tasmanian Bluegum). They average 550mm DBHOB (a couple up to 700) in a 6m pruned butt log. Some merchantable second logs. The trees are about 25 years old.

The grower could sell these trees into the standard sawmill supply chain. But some markets may be interested in farm grown trees and be prepared to pay a bit more for this timber. And as this is smaller scale than industrial forestry, there is the potential to mill onsite, cut larger sections or other custom timber requirements, stagger the harvest and so on. There may even be some interest in taking some as veneer logs if they grade up OK once felled.

There may be some people on this site interested in buying these logs and/or timber. Please message me if that's the case. And I would be very interested to hear of any niche markets that might be interested in timber for these trees. Mark Leech did a useful report on marketing larger logs in Tasmania where he found a number of markets for larger sections. Maybe there are similar markets in Victoria that could be accessed for these logs.

Thanks

David