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How a Canadian Pension Farmed the Most Productive Timberland
Episode 84 of The Productivity Podcast examines how the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) turned a 2007 timberland acquisition into one of the world's most productive forestry operations. Lucas and Luna walk through the specific management innovations—precision harvesting, satellite-based yield monitoring, and a 'biological asset rotation' strategy—that pushed annual growth per hectare to 12 cubic meters, versus the global average of 4. They also explore why institutional investors are now treating forests as infrastructure rather than commodities, and what…
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