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 fall issue of his company’s quarterly newsletter, the F&W Forestry Report. “But overall, they are up. It has been at least since 2012, and maybe as far back as the early 2000s, that I have been able to say that.”

Thomas said timber prices are mimicking the positive trends from the 1990s, but since it has only been a few quarters, forest landowners will have to wait and see if the price increases hold.

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