Pulp Prices!!

[Oldmil]

We had our bid opening today (County forest).  Aspen pulp went for $68/cd on a couple of sales.  Weighted ave for Aspen was $55/cd on all the sales.  Hardwood pulp was around $53/cd ave.  Highest I've seen in my 22 years.  The long hard winter has the mills desperate for wood and the prices show it.

Oldmil

[snowstorm]

this is stumpage price? whats the price at the mill?

[ga jones]

That seems average if my math is right. 68$ cord= 20$ a ton

[barbender]

I don't understand how the stumpage get this high, if the mills aren't paying more delivered. A lot of times when the price gets jacked that high, the mills are buying the stumpage themselves.

[chester_tree _farmah]

Straight popple pulp pays well right now. Not worth cutting the logs out of.

[barbender]

Straight popple pulp pays well right now. Not worth cutting the logs out of.

That holds true up here most of the time too- sometimes if the pulp mills are getting full we tend to sort more logs, just for another outlet.

[timbco68]

Over here in northern mn,the local osb mill is only paying 67.38 per cord for aspen in the 0 to 30 mile zone.Mind you that's 100 inch wood delivered to their yard.

[barbender]

Over here in northern mn,the local osb mill is only paying 67.38 per cord for aspen in the 0 to 30 mile zone.Mind you that's 100 inch wood delivered to their yard.

That must be Norboard, I had heard they don't pay very well. They must be paying some outfits more than that, that price barely covers harvesting and trucking, let alo e stumpage.