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Rayonier Announces Acquisitions in U.S. South
Rayonier Inc. has announced that the company entered into two separate agreements to acquire approximately 172,400 acres of high-quality commercial timberlands located in Texas, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana for an aggregate purchase price of…
University Of Georgia Researchers Will Reengineer Poplar
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of Georgia and two partner institutions have been awarded a $15.8 million grant over five years from the U.S. Dept. of Energy to reengineer poplar trees to be used as a sustainable energy…
Ponsse North America Adds Southern Location
Ponsse North America, Inc has expanded its operations to Midway, Fla., right outside of Tallahassee. The main factors that influenced this development are the growing demand for cut-to-length wood and an increase in machine sales in the South….
AU Receives Pine Needle Blight Research Funding
A research team in Auburn University’s College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment (CFWE) is working to find solutions to an increasing threat to pine forests—needle blight. Through a $2.1 million U.S. Forest Service grant, the group is aiming to…
New From John Deere: FR27 Disc Saw Felling Head
John Deere has announced its newest forestry attachment offering with the FR27 disc saw felling head. Now standard on the John Deere 953M and 959M feller-buncher models, and available as an upgrade on the on the 853M, 859M and 903M feller-bunchers,…
John Deere Releases Interactive Forestry Game
In conjunction with the Tracked Harvester Intelligent Boom Control (IBC) launch this earlier summer, John Deere created an interactive AR game that shows the simplicity of how it works. The game allows you to simulate operating a tracked harvester…
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