permaculture

[Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>]

Thought this might give a good perspective for those who have timber to sell.
M


> >  We're only about
> > 100 miles from you and we gave a poor market for walnut, no market
> > for hickory, very little market for red oak but a great one for
> > whites.
>
> One thing we did last time we sold timber was to use a private forester. He
> picked out and marked which trees to harvest in such a way as to improve the
> yield of the woods in the future and left most that were very nice but still
> had growth potential. Then he bid it out to about 12 sawmills. The
> difference between the top and low bids was over 100%, or about $30,000.
> The sawmill winning the bid was about 150 miles away and I hadn't heard of
> them before. They paid up front before loading the wood and also paid extra
> for 3 trees that were damaged by harvested trees. The forester works on 10%
> commission. He also avoids bidding out lumber to sawmills with bad
> reputations. I will always use a forester from now on to manage my woodlots.
>
> Lance Johnson
> Hesperia, MI
>
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Mark P. Ludwig
Poultry Research Lab
University of Wisconsin -Madison
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