After wavering over the winter, timber prices are up from a year ago, but only time will tell if this is due to wet conditions or is more long-term. “We are seeing an increase in stumpage prices that we hope is due to the increase in demand and increased lumber prices, and not wet weather. […]
Improving timber markets and the resulting escalation in harvest activity drove an uptick in reforestation activity during the 2021/22 tree planting season, according to the annual survey of F&W managers. Reforestation activity by managers increased by 33 percent over last season, with more than 24,000 acres of trees planted across F&W’s operating footprint. As in […]
A new program by the U.S. Department of Agriculture will spend $1 billion to fight climate change by funding projects that help farmers and forest landowners implement management practices that lead to a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The goal of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Agriculture program is to implement climate-friendly conservation practices on working […]
Timber stumpage prices are increasing, and the latest issue of The F&W Forestry Report has the graphs to show it. “There is just nothing prettier to a tree farmer than an upward-sweeping [timber] price graph,” notes Marshall Thomas, president of F&W Forestry Services, in the winter issue of his company’s newsletter. “We are still early […]
In 2019, the U.S. reached 1.3 million housing starts, which grew higher in 2020. Previously, that number was thought to be the threshold for creating demand pressure on sawtimber stumpage prices, but this time, it didn’t happen. Why could that be? Marshall Thomas, president of F&W Forestry Services, Inc., delves into this question in this […]
The Senate failed to take action on President Biden’s Build Back Better legislation, which passed the House in November, but negotiations are expected to continue when Congress returns in January. The bill includes a huge boost in funding for forestry programs to address climate change and left out most of the more controversial tax provisions […]
ALBANY, Ga. — Michael L. (Mike) Clutter, a former professor and dean of the University of Georgia Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, has joined F&W Forestry Services. After a 40-year career in academia and the forestry sector, Clutter has assumed the newly created position at F&W of Chief Analytics Officer, where he will […]
Standing trees (stumpage) prices are up across almost all wood categories in 2021. That’s the assessment of F&W President Marshall Thomas, who has been following timber market trends from the grower’s perspective for years. “They’re up. Across almost all categories, some more, some less, some earlier in the year, some later,” Thomas writes in the […]
Agricultural land values in the United States overall escalated 7 percent in 2021 from the previous year, with more modest gains being reported for most Southern and Atlantic states, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reports. Farm real estate values, a measurement of all land and buildings on farms, averaged $3,380 per acre in 2021, […]
Democrats in Congress are working to pass President Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan, legislation related to soft infrastructure that also contains several initiatives to address climate change, including funding for conservation programs to assist private forest landowners in implementing climate mitigation and forest resilience practices. But these same landowners are likely to end up paying […]