Robert Stubbs: Forestry operator shutting up shop after 23 years due to a raft of troubles

Published: May 31, 2023, 7:50 p.m.

Increasing concern has come that the forestry sector isn't being run in a sustainable way, with businesses on the chopping block.

A 23-year-old business is shutting up shop due to a raft of troubles, including rising costs, slim margins and export log prices continuing to fall.

Stubbs Contracting owner Robert Stubbs told Mike Hosking it's been a slippery slope for the last three years, since Covid.

He says fluctuation of market prices since then has increased debt to an unsustainable level.

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