Comments:
Ø No purchase of stumpage for period. Market trends poor.
Ø Firewood market is booming! Log prices still down hardwood & softwood
Ø Firewood is booming. Saw timber prices are still in a depression
Ø No prices to report –have held off on three sales for various reasons, especially market scenario….and many loggers still too tied up. Have heard some mills may finally be needing to buy up some white pine again…one hears loggers lamenting the price of diesel has been affecting their choice in running a skidder vs. their mechanized monsters more often these past several months, not surprisingly.
Ø Pine/Graded. Fuel! Repair costs? Got to do “repairs” yourself.
Ø Very few bidding
Ø What’s up with tulip average?
Ø Firewood market is hot. Hardwood lumber continues decline in demand.