Making Sense of Timber Markets In the Face of Record Lumber Prices
While lumber prices were reaching record highs earlier this year, the abundant supply of pine sawtimber trees across the South kept prices paid to forest landowners for their trees level.
Making Sense Of Lumber Prices
It seems the spike in lumber prices over the summer and early fall would have had a positive impact on timber stumpage prices paid to landowners for large pine sawtimber, but the correlation is not there, explains Marshall Thomas, president of F&W Forestry Services, in his company’s fall newsletter. While sawmills cut back production at […]
Recent Natural Disasters Bring Important Tax Issue For Landowners To The Forefront
The severe natural disasters devastating timberlands over the past few years have drawn attention to a huge flaw in our nation’s tax laws and the Forest Recovery Act aims to fix it. Currently, landowners whose timber stands are destroyed by a natural disaster are dealt an unintended blow because they can only deduct the lesser […]