Don't Become Another Victim

Most timber in Kentucky is sold on the shares.  Selling your timber on the shares means you have allowed a logger or timber buyer to cut your timber, haul your timber into a mill and you receive a percentage of the timber usually 50-60%.  Sometimes they will cut your timber and lay it out on your farm and allow timber buyers to come in and bid on it.  Before the timber buyers put in a bid on the laid out timber they figure in a haul bill, usually 6-8 cents bd/ft.  They subtract that out from their bid and so really, the landowner is paying the haul bill for the timber instead of the logger.  Pretty slick.  This means that the 50-60% you were promised is more like 30-40%.  Selling your timber on the shares is how most people have sold their timber in the past and is still how most timber in Kentucky is sold.  Warwick Forestry Consulting is trying to educate landowners and get them what their timber is truly worth and more and more people are starting to wake up and realize this.  Landowners need to know they have a valuable resource that needs to be taken care but at the same time the dollars in their resource need to be maximized because it's only fair to them.