We are seeing a storm of changes in timber procurement. There used to be many small and large independent loggers who purchased timber. Now many of them have either left logging or have grown and gone to contract logging. They never really had a large presence here, except in paper. IP an SYP mill at Franklin.
Solid wood is manufactured by many small, medium and large privately owned operations.
Presently it's in the form of the Virginia Chip Mill Study. The storm of changes in timber procurement won't be over for a while. Still, I thank God that I'm doing something I love. The mass production mills already operate on generally lower margins than the specialty and niche-market producers. It is getting harder and harder for the big companies to keep their mills logged.