by Kirstin Mills | Jan 22, 2020 | News
On Tuesday, January 14, Wenita held its annual Safe Start Breakfast at the Taieri Rugby Club with all harvesting, silviculture, roading and transport crews. This year we had 176 people attend the event. Wenita CEO David Cormack kicked the event off with some safety...
by Kirstin Mills | Dec 9, 2019 | News
Climate modelling is predicting conditions likely to result in a higher probability of more spike days this summer. NIWA predicts air pressure will be lower than normal to the southwest of New Zealand and higher than normal to the north. This is expected to be...
by Kirstin Mills | Nov 21, 2019 | News
Wenita has developed a management plan to preserve heritage sites during the harvesting and re-establishment of the Allanton Block of Otago Coast Forest. The second rotation harvest of Pinus radiata in the Allanton Block is scheduled to start in late November. The...
by Kirstin Mills | Oct 4, 2019 | News
Fire season started on October 1 and runs through to April 30. We update our Fire Danger indicator on the Wenita website if fire danger changes. Although it’s been a cool start to spring, we know conditions can change quickly and we cannot get complacent. Remember to...
by Kirstin Mills | Sep 2, 2019 | News
As at the end of August, planting in the Wenita estate is almost completed for the season. Dry soil conditions disrupted planting in early and mid-July, but since then conditions have been generally favourable. Planting for Ngai Tahu at Dunback and Waikouaiti is...
by Kirstin Mills | Jul 23, 2019 | News
We are expanding our pruning programme to about 700ha per year, which effectively means 1400ha of pruning operations per year when doing two-lift pruning. This year we have budgeted for 1000ha of pruning operations with the intention of increasing again next year....
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