April to June 2009

The MI DNR stumpage price report for April to June 2009 is out: 357 price lines across 14 of 80 management units and 23 species.

The Michigan Timber Index for sawtimber has no reading for this quarter; pulpwood moved down.

Down statewide: red oak, red maple, sugar maple sawtimber.

Up statewide: mixed oak, bigtooth aspen, jack pine pulpwood. Down: red pine, mixed hardwood, quaking aspen.

Of the 210 state sales opened this quarter, 177 sold and 33 drew no bid — 16% — with 3.2 bidders on a sold sale on average.

The previous quarter (Jan–Mar 2009) opened 223 sales, 25 no-bid — 11%; the same quarter a year earlier (Apr–Jun 2008) opened 178, 11 no-bid — 6%.

The figures behind every line — every price, every receipt — are in the record at stumpage.net.