when my then partner ( he bought me out 5 years ago.) was running hte numbers blueberries were 1.50 a lb wholesale   well he got his second harvest last year and got well under one dollar.. its a super high risk business... give me a stand of doug fir any day.. people need lumber to buy houses.. as long as your in Oregon or Washington you can harvest it.. and it just gets bigger ( increased volume every year as it grows) no need to do anything with it..

"Harvest" is a great website/app for tracking time.

I hope for appreciation for the future - my properties are long-term buy & hold for me - but if it doesn't come, I harvested the cash flow all those years and still got my principal back.

Then again, most people aren't dumb and know if they have harvestable timber on the land so you'll pay for it.  

  ( nuff said about that).. no city  crap  ( like building new homes.)no borrowers failing to pay.Just you and the woods .. you harvest do a killer replant and next generation does it all over again.I look at some of the hillsides I remember when I first came to ORegon that were clear cut.

You have an entire harvest of 50+% expense properties for you to reap.

The regular after-tax account does allow for the opportunity for tax-loss harvesting which can save you money in taxes along the way for a plus. 

It is very easy to determine an allocation and tax loss harvest and re-balance every once in a while.Hope that helps and keep us posted.

Thanks again for the recommendation.The original Zinnser BIN is a shellac - fast drying, good sealing properties - and you will want ventilation and/or a respirator when applying it.Due to the constraints and costs of harvesting the resin of the lac bug, Zinnser now manufactures a synthetic shellac primer "BIN 2" which is not as offensive to apply as the original .... and much cheaper to purchase.

Apparently, the trees need another 6 years before it would be profitable to harvest lumber.I guess the short lesson is to have someone knowledgeable survey the land.