Timber Price Update

The 4th quarter Timber-Mart South report just arrived. Average stumpage prices in Florida in the last three months of 1996 were $39/cord for pine pulpwood, $75/cord for pine C-N-S, and $99/cord for pine plylogs. These prices were up $3, $9, and $9 respectively from the third quarter of 1996. As previous newsletters have pointed out, stumpage prices are highly variable and the actual price for a particular timber sale is affected by one or more of the following factors: tract size; volume per acre; timber size and quality; access and proximity to mills.

Please Note that......

• The Timber-Mart South Report is copyrighted and the new subscription agreements do not allow us to reproduce a more complete quarterly price summary as we have done in past issues. However, the complete summary will be made available to County Extension Directors. Contact their offices for additional information.

• We're still waiting for the release of the 1997 Stewardship Incentives Program (SIP) cost shares