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July to September 2010

A quarterly summary of timber-price trends, reporting coverage and state timber-sale activity. Detailed prices and calculations are available to subscribers.

The MI DNR stumpage price report for July to September 2010 is out: 300 price lines across 15 of 80 management units and 22 species.

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

Up statewide: sugar maple, red pine sawtimber.

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

Of the 127 state sales opened this quarter, 124 sold and 3 drew no bid — 2% — with 5.4 bidders on a sold sale on average.

The previous quarter (Apr–Jun 2010) opened 217 sales, 7 no-bid — 3%; the same quarter a year earlier (Jul–Sep 2009) opened 133, 22 no-bid — 17%.

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

What this edition holds

Price lines300reported in this edition
Management units15 of 80reported a price line
Species22with at least one line
State sales opened127124 sold · 3 drew no bid

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