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Story: Trees in the rural landscape

Pine agroforestry

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Pine agroforestry

By growing trees with a wide enough distance between them for good pasture to develop, it is possible to raise a crop of trees on the same land that stock graze. However, the wood from trees grown in these situations is of a lower quality than that of trees grown in a pine plantation. These trees are on a farm in the Bay of Plenty.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Trees in the rural landscape – Rural radiata, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/19695/pine-agroforestry (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.