By Joel Salatin Most folks aren’t aware of the collapse in timber prices, especially in the Deep South.
Most of us don’t get excited about economic collapses unless they involve things we own… and most trees are owned by farmers and ranchers who seldom make the news.
But if you’re a farm boy in Louisiana who grew up planting trees and hearing stories about a $5,000-per-acre cash-in when you grow up, you’d be pretty devastated at this turn of events.
The collapse has many reasons. The biggest by far is a glut of lumber. One million fewer homes per year have been built since 2007.
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