Missouri Timber News Area
Missouri Timber Price Trends tracks market prices for Stumpage. Reports on the Stumpage Market are received from Missouri Department of Conservation Resource Foresters and private consulting foresters. Stumpage refers to timber sold on the stump and does not reflect delivered mill prices. These reports should serve as a general guide to track stumpage prices. Landowners should not use this report to replace a timber inventory and marketing assistance as methods of conducting a sale. Missouri Department of Conservation Resource Foresters will be able to provide information on current, local market conditions. Details of all private sales and delivered prices are kept confidential.
Published timber prices are based on a rolling average of reports received over the last four quarters. Refer to the column headed "# of Rpts." to get a gauge of how accurate the average prices may be. ("# of Rpts." refers to the number of sales including a particular species and may sum to more than the number of sales.) Changes since last quarter and last year should be read with caution as the number of reports varies each year and quarter. This report can only be used as a general guide for determining market value of timber. General market and economic conditions, as well as local considerations such as accessibility, terrain, sale size, and tree size and quality also affect the price paid.
Please see the map on page 13 for a definition of reporting regions, which have changed.
- All prices and volumes are reported in either International ¼" MBF Scale or Doyle MBF, depending on the region of the state.
- To convert volume from Int.-MBF to Doyle MBF, divide by 1.2. To convert prices from Int.-MBF to Doyle MBF, multiply by 1.2.
- To convert from MBF to BF (prices or volume), divide by 1,000.
Foresters reported stumpage prices (sales of standing timber) resulting from 74 timber sales for the 12 month period containing 118,365 MBF located throughout the state. There were 48 reports from private land timber sales and 26 reports from MDC, state land timber sales. There were 50 reports from MDC foresters, 23 reports from Consultant foresters and 1 report from other foresters. We would particularly like to thank these Consulting Foresters for contributing Timber Price Trend Reports: John Fleming, Art Suchland, Shelby Jones, Doug Enyart, Chris Lohmann, Lynn Barnickol, Jason Deschu and Mr. Jenkins. Consulting foresters are listed according to the number of reports received.
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