The Forestry Engineering Group (FEG) of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers will hold a truly international conference in forestry engineering at the end of June 1999. The idea was spawned during a conference held by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers in Minneapolis in 1997. The forestry engineering groups of these agricultural engineering organisations saw a need to share the work being carried out around the world by many separate small groups. Duplication of research effort is suspected and many well-versed practical engineering techniques in one region are completely unknown in others. Although agriculture is well served by international organisations and conferences, forestry engineering really only has the International Union of Forestry Research Organisations (IUFRO) which specialises in research and is not dedicated to engineering. It is believed that engineering in forestry is the fastest developing of all the engineering sciences and is involved in the majority of the expenditure in forestry.
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