It’s been five years since I checked the prices of conflict-driven, welfare-dependent Tasmanian oak timber at Bunnings Hardware, Australia’s largest timber retailer. Given my previous post about timber prices after the shutdown of welfare forestry in West Australia and Victoria, I thought I should do an update.
Whoa!!! Look at that chart!!
It seems that as welfare public forestry is shut down in Australia, the price of hardwood timber has increased dramatically. Small sizes are now over $22,000 per cubic metre and the cheapest at $9,500 per cubic metre. These are massive price increases from 5 years ago!
These massive hardwood timber price increases should be sending ripples through the Australian farming community. So far I’ve seen no evidence that is happening! Why??
The future of the forest industry in Australia is with farm forestry. Surely these hardwood prices now make growing quality hardwood in private plantations a viable and profitable agricultural activity.
Why isn’t the farming community responding?
Tasmanian Blackwood Growers Cooperative 
bloody oath Gordon can’t believe them prices luckily I don’t have to pay that much.
but in all honestly is this good news as they will rape and pilgrimage third world countries for timber and over there they don’t care about the damage our governments are stopping native logging to please the greens and the toffs that live in wealthy suburbs who wipe their arseholes with toilet paper made from wood and have timber furniture if forests were selectively harvested from days gone by we would not have this problem. Regards Bob
Thanks Gordon, great info! Happy new year 😊🙏