Timber Prices Continue To Rise
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 […]
Ag Land Values Increase Across The Nation
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, […]
Funding For Forestry Could Be Overshadowed By Changes In Tax Laws
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 […]