Pine Straw: Harvesting the Product | Mississippi State University ...
Decide if you want to produce and harvest pine straw yourself or by a contract harvester. Consider landowner objectives and incorporate them into the written forest management plan. Yields are closely correlated with basal area of the stand, site characteristics, and pine species.
Harvesting/Selling Pine Straw for Extra Profit
Today we're talking with John Willis, an Extension siviculture specialist, about harvesting, and selling pine straw for extra profit.
Harvesting Pine Straw from a Forest – Forest Farming - Extension
2019年8月26日 · Pine straw is harvested from both natural and planted stands. Because trees in planted stands are usually in rows, plantations are more conducive to harvesting pine straw, especially with mechanical operations. Natural stands, and those that are densely stocked with trees, may need to be thinned to prepare for future harvests.
Maximizing Income Through Sustainable Pine Straw Harvesting
Not only does pine straw make excellent mulch, but it is a source of income for forest landowners with pine plantations. For landowners who are interested in selling pine straw, let’s examine how pine straw is acquired and harvested, as well as start-up costs and environmental benefits.
Managing Longleaf Pine Straw - NC State Extension Publications
1 天前 · The key to harvesting longleaf pine straw is to rotate a raking schedule with understory burns across parcels. Rotating the raking of identified parcel area avoids overharvesting. Annual pine straw raking is possible but should be avoided over an entire parcel.
Harvesting pine straw too early is typically not profitable due to lower levels of needle production at this age. Further, pine straw harvesting can potentially remove too much organic matter and valuable nutrients from soil of the growing stand, which can impact growth rate of the stand impacting more valuable products than pine straw.
How is pine straw harvested? – Forest Farming - Extension
2013年8月1日 · Pine straw may be harvested mechanically or raked by hand. Mechanical operations are often conducted by a contractor who has a tractor-drawn rake that pulls the needles into piles between the rows of trees. Once the needles are raked into piles, a tractor-drawn baler collects and bundles the needles into bales that are bound with twine or wire.
Harvesting of pine straw is one option available to forestland owners looking to get short-term income while allowing timber to remain “on the stump.” Harvesting pine straw is considered a form of “forest farming,” one category of agroforestry (Hill and Buck 2000).
document attempts to balance pine straw’s economic value to landowners with its ecological values to the forest, i.e., optimizing rather than maximizing those values. The Best Management Guidelines (BMGs) presented in this document are intended to show how pine straw harvest can be …
Pine Straw: Considerations for Production on Your Land
2021年8月27日 · Management practices such as fertilization, herbicide applications, and prescribed burning will help you to maximize your pine straw production. Fertilization to enhance pine straw production varies depending on species and site quality.