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Timberland investment summit testy and sobering

Timberland investment summit testy and sobering

The 8th IQPC Timberland Investment World Summit in New York at the end of October was more pessimistic about the mid-term future for forest products and timberland prices.

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Acreage: What’s the relationship between price and size?

Acreage: What’s the relationship between price and size?

I’ve been watching several local tracts for a while, because they puzzle me.

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How do you value bare dirt in timberland?

How do you value bare dirt in timberland?

I have a rule against giving my time away for free, which I am trying to enforce more diligently than when I was 30 when I had more time to give away.

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Which foot forward: Best or worst?

Which foot forward: Best or worst?

At the recent LandThink Summit, a broker asked me what seemed like a simple question at first hearing: “Should the seller/seller’s broker show a buyer the best feature of the property first and work backward, or the worst feature first and work forward?”

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Allegheny Front

Old is not new, thank goodness!

I live in an old place. Our farm sits on karst limestone, a sedimentary rock composed largely of the shells and skeletons of marine organisms that lived in a shallow sea several hundred million years ago.

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