July to September 2012

The MI DNR stumpage price report for July to September 2012 is out: 438 price lines across 17 of 80 management units and 26 species.

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

Up statewide: red oak, red maple, sugar maple sawtimber. Down: bigtooth aspen, mixed oak, red pine.

Up statewide: bigtooth aspen, mixed aspen pulpwood. Down: red maple, balsam fir, mixed hardwood.

Of the 172 state sales opened this quarter, 154 sold and 18 drew no bid — 10% — with 3.0 bidders on a sold sale on average.

The previous quarter (Apr–Jun 2012) opened 219 sales, 9 no-bid — 4%; the same quarter a year earlier (Jul–Sep 2011) opened 164, 11 no-bid — 7%.

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