What is a decent price per ton to receive for pine pulpwood in SW Mississippi?

Take whatever you can to get if you find someone willing to cut and haul it.

40 acres, Lincoln County.

Are you saying the pulpwood price is changing? Up or down?

Family land got cut few months ago. The pulp wood is layiy there rotting. No where to sell

Prices are definitely down. I am working with a forester and am only getting $2 an acre for pulpwood. Have been waiting almost a year to get 70 acres of 20 year old pines cut. The mills are being very selective. Was going to do a 3rd row thin but beetles and the drought killed about 30% of the trees so I have to clear cut them for a logger to be interested. Going to select cut hardwoods as well.

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I am working with a forester

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Good choice

2-4k per ton? Roughly how many tons per acre?

The way I look at it is that my objective is to be able to pay for a dozer to come in and clean up behind the logger. So $2k doesn't get it. I figure at a minimum whenever I have a logging job done I want to fix the road, clean up a food plot where the loading deck was, probably put in a new deer stand, and usually a culvert or two. And then there are fire lanes. If I'm thinning a pine stand i always want good wide fire lanes that I can disk around. Because I'm gonna want to burn that stand two years after thinning and then every 2-3 years thereafter.

So it's more like I need to put $5-10k back into the land to "leave it better than it was." Or I'm going backwards.

So whenever I thin some pines I'm always looking for something else for the logger to do. Like cutting some low grade hardwood logs around the perimeter (which helps with the fire lanes and provides sunlight and edge habitat).

Or maybe I'll clearcut 5-7 acres next to the thinning area to raise some money and create some diversity, etc.

To put this into perspective, in 1998 we thinned 30 acres of some pine pulpwood for $18 a ton. In 2004 we thinned 170 acres for $12 a ton. We got over $100,000 for that. In 2005 after Katrina we salvage thinned some stands and only got $8. In 2014 we thinned 70 acres and only got $5 and i thought we were getting robbed.
Now I'm trying to get $2 and throwing in hardwood logs, and clear cutting pine stands just to get the logger interested so I can raise enough money to clean up behind him.

That's how bad it is.

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Hopefully DOGE destroys the Canadian lumber incentive and prices for Americans return

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We can put whatever tariff on Canadian lumber we want, and it will have zero effect on the stumpage price on pine pulpwood here in the SE US.

We have had 45 new pine sawmills built in the last 15 years. And probably 100 more mills that have gone through major upgrades and capacity expansions. And that hasn't even caused a rise in pine log prices.

We still have way way too many pine trees

Tie logs have doubled in the past 20 years. Literally the only timber product that hasn't gone down

RR ties market is pretty good..same with mat timbers

Grade red oak is awful

White oak is incredible

Anything with the word Pine in it is historically bad. Worse in real terms than during the Great Depression