Housing starts have remained steady at a level that isn’t enough to put any real pressure on prices for sawtimber-sized trees, while China has been a wild card for just about everyone in the forest industry, particularly the hardwood sector.
Eight months after Hurricane Michael roared through the Florida Panhandle, Southwest Georgia, and Southeast Alabama, causing more than $2 billion in timberland damage, federal disaster aid is finally on the way.
The ongoing trade/tariff war between the U.S. and China is having a significant negative impact on American wood product exports.
Timber stumpage (standing tree) prices in the South were flat in the first quarter of the year with the exception of hardwood markets in the Southeastern region, the head of one of the nation’s largest forest management companies reports.
A survey of F&W managers across the Southern Pine Belt finds reforestation activity was on the rise in most regions during the recent 2018-19 planting season and more landowners are using genetically-improved seedlings and planting fewer seedlings per acre.
Last year was a record year of natural disasters, including hurricanes and wildfires which inflicted huge economic losses on timberland owners in the U.S. South and West Coast. The Forest Landowners Association (FLA) is leading an effort to advocate for changes to federal tax laws to assist forest landowners with catastrophic losses due to natural disasters.
F&W wants to inform Georgia landowners of three programs that have just been announced to provide assistance to Georgia forest landowners impacted by Hurricane Michael. These programs, two from the Georgia Forestry Commission (GFC) and one from Georgia Forestry Association (GFA) for its members, provide disaster relief assistance to landowners for debris cleanup efforts. We […]
Over the past 30 years, the logging sector has changed considerably, transforming from a labor-intensive to a capital-intensive industry.
“It took almost 10 years to slowly but steadily get to a decent level of housing starts, raising expectations for all of us in the tree-growing business, and now we have stalled right at the point where demand might have created some upward pressure on prices paid for trees,” writes Marshall Thomas.
Over the past 30 years, the logging sector has changed considerably, transforming from a labor-intensive to a capital-intensive industry.