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DAY 1 SESSIONS <-- THIS WEBINAR

Instructor: Dr.Barry Shiver

AGENDA - Day 1 Download the complete 2-day agenda here (.pdf)

Day 1 - July 28, 2020  (Eastern Time)

8:00 am Registration online (last chance registration)

8:15-10:15 Session 1
Welcome—Dr. David Dickens—Forest Productivity Prof.
Course Introduction and Overview- Dr. Barry Shiver
• Biological growth potential of Southern pines
• Increase in production over last 50 years
• Limiting factors for growth
• Contributions of different treatments to productivity
• Growth and Yield Models
• Effects of site Quality
• Types of Treatment Responses
• Growth and Yield Models and incorporation of treatment responses
• Optimum Biological Rotation – Maximizing productivity over time; fully regulated forest
• Questions

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30-12:30 Session 2
Financial Concepts and their Use in Decision Making – Dr. Barry Shiver
• Time value of money; compounding and discounting
• Net present value and internal rate of return
• BLV – a special case NPV
• Existing Stands vs Bare Ground
• Ranking alternative management strategies using NPV and BLV
• Marginal rate of return
• Optimum financial rotations
• Effects of site quality, treatment costs, prices, investment length
• We can increase production – should we?
• Extra production required to break even
• Why increased production is often worth the cost even with low prices
• Questions

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30—3:30pm Session 3
Regeneration Decisions
• Species Decisions – A comparison of slash, loblolly, and longleaf
• Genetics Decisions – Choices, Impacts of Markets, Potential Financial Returns
• Seedling Decisions – Bare root and container; Seedling morphology
• Planting Density – Impacts on tree and stand development, concept of limiting density, impact of markets on planting density decisions
• Questions

3:30-3:45 Break

3:45-4:45 Session 4
Regeneration Decisions (continued)
• Site preparation - objectives of chemical & mechanical site prep; competition thresholds; growth responses; impacts on investment returns
• Questions

4:45 pm Adjourn