🔗To find out more about our 2024 RIAS Special Category Awards, including Scottish Forestry & Confor's Timber Award and Fraser/Livingstone Architects' winning project Simon Square, click here: bit.ly/4cteS2X

PRIZE GIVING - The Royal Welsh Agricultural Society Tree Felling Competition 2024. Thank you to all those who attended, competed, and made it such an enjoyable event! Supported by Confor Wales Confor

Scottish Woodlands Ltd has underlined its commitment to the highest-quality forest management by clocking up 25 years of continuous forest certification with FSC©. The award of the new Forest Management Certificate runs for five years and will take the company through to an

Daniel Zeichner MP Daniel Zeichner has been appointed Minister of State in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Huge thanks to all who attended our Welsh Industry Networking Dinner in Aberystwyth last night. Great discussions in wonderful surroundings. We look forward to seeing many of these faces at Royal Welsh Agricultural Society in a couple of weeks! Make sure you drop by the Confor Hub 🎪 ConforWales

Forestry & wood is worth £1.1bn to Scotland annually & employs more than 34,000 people. Confor CEO Stuart Goodall said the figures, announced by Deputy FM Kate Forbes MSP at West Fraser Engineered Wood today, were "remarkable" in the face of major economic challenges. Read: bit.ly/3zNcPbq

Q. How can Labour build 1.5 million homes while at the same time not exacerbating climate breakdown? A. Build on top with timber. My letter in today's Guardian. theguardian.com/society/articl… Timber Development UK CEI-Bois ACAN! Waugh Thistleton Architects

We have once again created a space for forestry businesses to come together at Royal Welsh Agricultural Society. Drop by Stand 803! Thanks to our Forestry Business Hub sponsors Institute of Chartered Foresters Pryor & Rickett Bronwin & Abbey Ltd FocusOnForestryFirst, SAF Woodland Management, Euroforest & Pontrilas Sawmills.

We’re looking forward to welcoming you all at Stand 803 Royal Welsh Agricultural Society today! Drop by to hear from Forest Research & Iwan Meirion #RWSConfor

Join us this afternoon Royal Welsh Agricultural Society Stand 803 for updates on forests and timber from Welsh Government and the ever popular Woodland Awards Competition. Thanks to our sponsors Bronwin & Abbey Ltd Velcourt Iwan Meirion Forestry Contracting MWMAC Ltd Vertinetik KFT & FISA #RWSConfor

Did you see our ConforWales Manager in the CLA tent Royal Welsh Agricultural Society this morning? Make sure to drop by Stand 803 to continue the forestry conversation #RWSConfor

Royal Welsh Agricultural Society Confor Royal Welsh Show #thursday

We hope you'll join us for the final day of Royal Welsh Agricultural Society 2024! Again, our thanks to Forest Business Hub sponsors MWMAC Ltd, Bronwin & Abbey Ltd, Velcourt, Iwan Meirion, FCA & FISA for supporting our seminar programme. #RWSConfor

We're getting close to wrapping up Royal Welsh Agricultural Society for 2024! A huge thanks to all the speakers and guests who made the effort to join us in the Confor Forest Business Hub over the past few days. Forest Research Iwan Meirion Coed Lleol / Small Woods Woodknowledge Wales Farming Connect Tilhill Forestry

ICYMI: Stuart Goodall spoke to Farming Today's Charlotte Smith this morning about missed tree planting targets and the concerns in Wales and Scotland. The programme will be focusing on forestry issues all this week - tune in to hear more from the sector bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

This morning's Farming Today listeners will have heard Tom Barnes speaking about the industry-led National Wood Strategy for England from his family business Vastern Timber. If you didn't catch it live, tune in on the BBC website. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Scottish Forestry has released information to help the forestry sector transition to the new 5th version of the UKFS. You can view the new information on this page: forestry.gov.scot/sustainable-fo… #UKFS

Who else is at Swansea University this week for #NewIPM2024? This conference brings together leaders in integrated pest management. If you missed Confor’s Richard Hunter talking about tree health yesterday, drop by our stand.

We're in the two week countdown to #APF24! Take a look at our schedule of events to find out what's happening in this year's Seminar Tent, kindly sponsored by Forestry Commission and Forest Research. Full details: confor.org.uk/resources/even…

It’s beginning to look a lot like #APF24! We hope to see many of you through the gates 19-21 September. Have a look at what’s happening 👉 confor.org.uk/resources/even…