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• Fascinated by change

  The last 2 months or so I have been revisiting the Chilean forest sector and mentally comparing values with other…
  24 Jan, '24

• We all stopped expanding our forest estate

  A few days ago I was comparing afforestation figures—planting in area that didn’t have trees before—across New Zealand, Chile and…
  13 Jan, '24

• New plantations in AU, NZ and CL

  Looking at new forest plantations areas in Chile (data from INFOR), Australia (ABARES) and New Zealand (MPI) since 1994, as…
  3 Jan, '24

• Jetsam 73: blind musician

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  29 Dec, '23

• Collaborative competition

  I was reading Peter Amer’s Pre-competitive collaboration in which he discusses the interaction between private and public sectors in research…
  23 Dec, '23

• What Would Akaike Do?

  This AIC looks way more fun than the other AIC for (soft toy) model selection.
  23 Dec, '23

• Leaking genetic gain: not quite a selection index

  A few years ago I was talking with a breeder who spent substantial time running genetic analyses, with fairly sophisticated…
  21 Dec, '23

• Long-term and longer-term

  Last Tuesday I had a very interesting visit (coordinated by Dr Verónica Emhart) and discussion with the breeding team at…
  15 Dec, '23

• Names and things

  There was a time when we used to take one or more field crews and we would measure trees. As…
  10 Dec, '23

• Why did my breeding values go down?

  At first, the question may sound strange. You have been collecting data, running analyses using various acronyms (PBLUP, GBLUP, HBLUP,…
  30 Nov, '23