Georgia · Timber prices
Timber pricesin Georgia
Georgia Forestry Commission publishes one. It has to be read at the source.
No page anywhere can tell you what your own stand is worth. What this one does is put the Georgia report in front of you, then show you the mills close enough to your gate to bid on it.
The source
Who publishes Georgia's prices
Georgia Forestry Commission publishes timber price summaries with harvest advice. Updated quarterly.
That report is published under licence. Across the South the stumpage averages in it come from TimberMart-South, a paid subscription service run out of the University of Georgia, and the licence the publisher holds does not extend to anybody else reprinting the figures.
So the numbers are not on this page, and they will not be. Not rounded, not last quarter's, not "approximately". Open the report at the source below and read the current edition with the publisher's own notes beside it — which is where the caveats about species, region and grade live anyway, and those caveats are most of what makes the figures usable.
That is the same rule this site's mill pages follow: no fact is printed that the source did not licence us to print.
The honest answer
There is no Georgia price for timber
A standing tree cannot be shipped to the highest bidder. It has to be cut, dragged to a landing, loaded and hauled to a gate that will take it, and the freight comes out of the same load the timber does. Two identical stands fifty miles apart are worth different money, and no state figure can close that gap.
248 wood processors are listed in Georgia across 103 counties. Which of them sit within working distance of your gate is what decides who bids on your tract and what they can afford to pay for it.
Species and grade split it again. Pine sawtimber, chip-n-saw, pulpwood and veneer-grade hardwood move on separate markets, and a stand is usually worth sorting into products rather than selling as one lot. The site's market board sets out why there is no world price for a load of logs, and the timber value chain shows where each layer of the money goes between the stump and the mill gate.
If what you are weighing is the sale itself — the standing timber, the ground under it, or both together — how selling timberland actually works walks through what drives what a buyer will pay, what a timber cruise is and who should run it for you, and why land is worth what somebody will actually pay for it and no more.
Got timber to move in Georgia?
A report says what the neighbourhood has been doing. It does not say what your tract will bring. Put it out for sealed bids and let the buyers around your county answer that themselves.