ArborGen has entered into a partnership agreement with the South Carolina Forestry Commission. The exclusive 10 year agreement will allow ArborGen to modernize and operate the Taylor Nursery in Trenton, South Carolina, increasing its annual capacity to 30 million units, as the company says in the press release received by Lesprom Network.
Taylor Nursery will become the seventh nursery location for ArborGen providing the most genetically advanced loblolly seedlings for the Southeast. The company will begin to make improvements to the facility once the contract begins on April 1, 2018. The first crop of seedlings will be available in 2018-2019.
ArborGen is the largest global seedling supplier and the leading provider of advanced genetics for the forest industry.
