Quality focus key to broadleaf profits

Quality should be one of the key objectives in broadleaf management, forestry owners were told at a hardwood marketing event hosted by Teagasc. 

Teagasc Forestry Development Department brought forestry sector leaders together for the ‘Talking Hardwoods’ workshop yesterday at the Firgrove Hotel, Mitchelstown, Co Cork.

Private forest owner Ailbhe Gerrard of Brookfield Farm, near Nenagh, Co Tipperary, said quality should be a key objective for broadleaf forest owners, with the aim to produce valuable hardwood timber at the intermediate and mature crop stages.