...David Evison The purpose of this paper is develop an industry-level (average) estimate of annual investment returns from industrial planted forests in New Zealand, from publicly-available financial statement data. The research used data from seven New Zealand commercial forest-growing companies...

...David C. Evison This paper describes a method of estimating annual investment returns from forest growing businesses in New Zealand, using financial statement data. The method is also applied to survey data (derived from farm financial statements) published by New Zealand pastoral farming sector...