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DAY 2 SESSIONS <-- THIS WEBINAR

Instructor: Dr.Barry Shiver

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

Day 2 - July 29, 2020  (Eastern Time)

8:00-10:00 Session 5 - Herbaceous Weed Control (HWC)

• Potential impactson growth
• Type, Timing, magnitude and duration of stand responses
• Interaction with hardwood levels
• Costs and impacts on investment returns  Empirical Results from Trials –Dr. David Dickens
• Results of 4 yr loblolly HWC trials
• Results of 11 yr longleaf HWC trials
• Questions

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15-12:15 Session 6 - Established Stand Silvicultural Treatments

• Comparing management alternatives for existing stands
• Concept of marginal rate of return
• Problems with, but Value of Calculation of Marginal Rate of Return
• Woody Release or Cleaning (Weeding of Woody Competitors)
• Type, Timing, Magnitude and Duration of Stand Responses
• Impacts on dbh distribution; control of upland and waxy leaf species
• Typical rates of return for woody release; trends in woody release costs and impacts on investment returns
• Additional benefits of woody release beyond growth (fire danger, harvesting costs, inventory costs, potential tax benefits)
•Questions

12:15-1:15 Lunch

1:15-2:15 Session 7 - Established Stand Silvicultural Treatments—Fertilization
• P deficient sites; threshold levels and sampling for nutrient levels; ratios needed
• Concept of leaf area; efficient ways to fertilize
• Type, duration, and magnitude of response; N alone vs N+P fertilization
• Piedmont vs Coastal Plain native nutrient levels
• Impacts on dbh distribution
• Trends in fertilization costs and impacts on investment returns
• Release and fertilization combined
• Questions

2:15-2:30 Break

2:30-4:30 Session 8 - Established Stand Silvicultural Treatments -Thinning
• Development of thinned vs unthinned stands
• Importance of intermediate cash flows on financial returns
• Change in optimal financial rotation from thinning
• Reasons to thin (or not to thin) -the importance of markets
• Timing, frequency, intensity of thins and which trees to thin
• Thinning-Species Differences
• Importance of inventory data and concept of TQI
• Difference in investment returns for different thinning strategies;
• Impact of early thinning on financial returns
• Cost of a delay in thinning
• Questions Other Opportunities and Considerations
• Impact of annual cash flows on financial returns
• Pine straw raking-opportunities, realistic sites, impacts on nutrients; impact of straw raking on species choice and thinning decisions
• Wood Quality as impacted by silvicultural treatments; what are realistic tons/acre goals;
• Using operability and inventory information to maximize stumpage prices (and returns)
• Course summary and questions

4:30 pm Adjourn