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Climate change, increasing drought and massively rising costs are a constant challenge for Land&Forstbetriebe Austria, (Land&Forestry Association) but at least it is currently positive about good market conditions. In 2022, a price increase was recorded for all types of wood and assortments.\u00a0The softwood sawlogs remained the engine of Austrian forestry.\u00a0Spruce logs had an average price of around 113 euros with tips up to 125 euros.\u00a0Significant price increases to 41 euros per cubic meter were also recorded for softwood pulpwood after years of downward trend.\u00a0Hardwood prices also rose due to the strong demand for firewood.<\/span><\/p>\n Despite all the euphoria, Felix Montecuccoli, the president of\u00a0Land&Forstbetriebe \u00d6sterreich, points out: \u201cWith all the positive price developments, a look at the consumer price index shows that the current high level of inflation is wiping out part of this positive development.\u00a0If you look at the price of spruce sawlogs, for example, the price of around 113 euros per cubic meter \u2013 adjusted with the CPI from 1976 \u2013 is still below the values \u200b\u200bfor the years 2011 to 2016. In addition, the very labour-intensive forestry industry is particularly affected by the increase in personnel costs affected.\"<\/span><\/p>\n Like many other sectors, forestry has recently been struggling with increasing cost pressure.\u00a0The high energy costs, the rising wage costs for skilled workers and the expensive investment costs for timber harvesting machines were particularly important here.\u00a0At the same time - not least due to the high demand and the local calamities - the capacities of the service providers for timber harvesting and timber transport decreased: longer waiting times were the result.<\/span><\/p>\n The\u00a0Land&Forstbetriebe \u00d6sterreich\u00a0is equally concerned about this year's bark beetle development as it is about the contradictory political \"projects\" of the EU. The necessary adaptation measures of the forest are clearly thwarted by unrealistic legislative proposals from Brussels. Instead of active forest conversion and conscious risk minimization by means of shorter rotation times, taking the forest out of use is still up for debate.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Climate change, increasing drought and massively rising costs are a constant challenge for Land&Forstbetriebe Austria, (Land&Forestry Association) but at least it is currently positive about good market conditions. In 2022, a price increase was recorded for all types of wood … Continue reading
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