Comments from surveys:   2nd quarter 2003.

• Hard maple is on the way down, some mills are now refusing it. Low grade hardwood is going up.

• Have been land clearing since April on 24 acre clear cut. I am being paid to cut and chip.

• The high bidder on this sale was 33% more than everybody else. This was a final shelterwood of a red oak stand – saving the best for last can pay

• My foresters report their individual sales. I might be interesting to put out an annual report lumping sales by:

  Type – lump sum/mill tally

  Reported by – consultants/ mills

  Buyer/Seller

   

•  Might be interesting to survey foresters percentage or timber sales. Have heard anywhere between 20-50%. High prices on soft maple, other hardwoods, birch very difficult to believe.

•  Major changes coming in pine market as a result not only of pine lumber prices but also Canadian exchange rate change.

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• Hardwood-good, Pine-slow. Note name change.

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•  Tough in woods!

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• Veneer prices RO, BC, SM still great. But you know that!  Too much "turbulence" in most other markets.  Have purposely held off on bidding out 5 to 6 sales .. will try a little later to "capture" inventory buildup needs pre-winter. Have lots with lotsa pallet & F still  sitting and waiting.