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Recession taking swings at timber: State's No. 2 cash crop 'feeling the effects just like everybody else'.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 27-APR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Recession taking swings at timber: State's No. 2 cash crop 'feeling the effects just like everybody else'.(Focus: Agribusiness & Timber Made in Mississippi)

Article Excerpt
Timber is holding its own as the Magnolia State's second most lucrative cash crop, but economic analysts and industry professionals say the recession is slowly chopping away at this once proud institution.

"We're feeling the effects just like everybody else," says Aaron Rambin, a forester with the Mississippi Forestry Commission in Jones County. Rambin says that the housing slump has left people only willing to sell pulpwood, timber that is grown primarily for paper products. "They are holding on to their mature timber and thinning and maintaining their stands, keeping them healthy."

The timber industry in Mississippi hasn't caught a break since the summer of 2005, when the 120 mile-per-hour winds of Hurricane Katrina caused significant damage to the state's coastal and...

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