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 […]
Bi-partisan legislation was introduced in the U.S. Congress to allow private forest landowners to recover from the loss of timber destroyed by natural disasters and reforest their land. The Disaster Reforestation Act proposes to fix a shortcoming in the federal tax code to allow landowners to deduct the full value of their timber destroyed during […]
F&W Forestry Services, Inc., one of the oldest and largest forest management and consulting firms in the U.S., announced today that it has acquired London-based O.C.S. Group Ltd.’s forestry and land subsidiaries. The acquisition includes three companies with forest management and real estate operations in North America and the United Kingdom.
Wood pellets grown and produced largely in the U.S. Southeast for export to Europe virtually doubled in 2013 to 3.2 million tons with no slowdown in sight.
President Obama’s proposed new regulations on reducing carbon emissions by coal-fired electric generating plants has attracted cautious reviews from the forestry community that has an important stake in seeing greater use of biomass fuels by the power industry.
The Finance Committee of the U.S. Senate, which has jurisdiction over tax laws, has announced the first hearings in a comprehensive effort to reform and reorganize the federal tax code for the first time since 1986.
Timber prices in the second quarter were stronger than a year ago and with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasting a high probability of an El Niño event this fall and winter, the outlook appears encouraging for tree growers.