Southeast Lumber Market
By now we have all heard that lumber prices have gone through the roof. Many landowners are wondering when the prices will rise for their timber. As I see it there are several different factors that are driving prices and to truly understand the market we have to go back to the recession when sawmills closed and landowners simply left the timber on the stump. After several years of not harvesting mature timber and other timber stands coming to maturity, the Southeast was over