| Timber is a cash crop for most states in the United | | | | considered as the first contacts the landowners have |
| States and this is true as well in many European | | | | with the forest products industry. |
| countries. With timber being a good source of | | | | Not everyone can become timber buyers though |
| income, many landowners are into the timber | | | | since there are some countries and states in the US |
| business and timber buyers are getting into the act | | | | that require the timber buyers to be registered |
| as well. | | | | before they can get to participate in the industry. For |
| Timber buyers and the landowners as the main | | | | example in the state of Indiana, the timber buyers in |
| players in the industry | | | | the state should be licensed through the Indiana |
| Timber buyers and the landowners are just two of | | | | Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry |
| the many stakeholders in the timber industry. There | | | | before that they buy the timber products within the |
| are a number of players in the timber industry | | | | state. These timber buyers are paid by the logger, |
| market but among these many stakeholders, the | | | | the landowner, sawmill or the veneer mill and the |
| landowners and the timber buyers are considered as | | | | main job of these timber buyers is to buy the timber |
| two of the major players. And the timber buyers and | | | | as needed by these mills. And as observed by |
| the landowners are entities that have a say on the | | | | insiders and outsiders, the timber buyers will come as |
| movement and the direction of the timber industry. | | | | good buyers or bad buyers too. These buyers buy |
| In the industry of timber, the landowners and the | | | | the timber in one of two ways. |
| timber buyers directly interact with one another. In | | | | Two ways on how timber buyers buy their timber |
| the year-round activities of the timber industry, the | | | | Here are two methods on how timber buyers buy |
| timber buyers and the landowners will regularly get in | | | | their timber in the market: |
| touch with one another in order to affect the sales | | | | · In the first method, these timber buyers work |
| and to promote the production of the timber. | | | | with the landowner in order to select and mark the |
| Role of the timber buyers in the industry | | | | trees that will be removed and the buyers and the |
| As everyone knows, the landowner is an important | | | | landowner then talks for the price of these timbers. |
| stakeholder in the industry as he is the one who | | | | · In the second method, the buyers will submit the |
| plants and cultivates the trees that become the | | | | sealed bid sale, and a third party marks the trees for |
| timber. The timber buyers on the other hand are the | | | | sale. For example the consultant or the district |
| entities that buy the timber form the forest | | | | forester who works for the landowner will be the |
| landowner. Timber buyers usually work for the saw | | | | one that will select and mark the trees for sale. The |
| mills, the veneer mills or these timber buyers work | | | | forester then arranges the bid sale. |
| for the logger. In most cases, these timber prices are | | | | |