Selling Timber in Berrien County, GA

10 businesses work this county · 2 registered consulting foresters

Quick answer

There are 10 timber businesses listed for Berrien County, Georgia: 2 consulting foresters and 8 timber buyers, loggers and mills. 9 of them have offices in the county. The rest are registered to work here and travel in, and every listing shows how far its office is from the county seat.

Timber prices for Berrien County

No county publishes its own timber prices. These are Georgia's published stumpage prices, what landowners are paid for standing timber, and the best public guide to what timber in Berrien County is bringing. Your own timber can sell above or below them.

Pine sawtimber$22–$28 per ton
Pine chip-n-saw$17–$23.5 per ton
Pine pulpwood$6–$9.5 per ton
Mixed hardwood sawtimber$26–$32 per ton
Hardwood pulpwood$6–$8 per ton

Source: University of Georgia Extension, Q3 2025. All Georgia timber prices

Before you talk to anyone, find out what your timber is worth

Most landowners in Berrien County have no idea what their standing timber is worth, which is exactly the position a buyer wants you in. Four questions gets you a ballpark range before the first offer lands.

Consulting Foresters in Berrien County (2)

These 2 foresters have offices right here in Berrien County. A forester works for you, not for the buyer.

Nashville, GA

Enviro-Works, Inc. appears on the Georgia Forestry Commission's list of consulting foresters covering Georgia, with an office in Nashville, in Berrien County. The Commission compiles that list from foresters who submit their own details to it; a listing is not an endorsement. The Commission's record marks the firm as: Certified Prescribed Burner.

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Nashville, GA

Joe Enviro-works Inc Matthews appears on the Georgia Forestry Commission's list of consulting foresters covering Georgia, with an office in Nashville, in Berrien County. The Commission compiles that list from foresters who submit their own details to it; a listing is not an endorsement. The Commission's record marks the firm as: Certified Prescribed Burner.

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Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills in Berrien County (7)

These 7 are based in Berrien County. Being close matters: hauling is one of the biggest costs taken out of your check.

Nashville, GA

Balfour Timber is based in Thomasville, Georgia, and has operated since 1958. Its main trade is buying timber, but it also does logging, consulting forestry, and sawmill work. It holds the Georgia Master Timber Harvester certification. It buys and supplies pine and hardwood, including fuelwood, pulpwood, chip-n-saw, ply-logs, sawtimber, poles, and Southern Yellow Pine. Its supply reaches mills across South Georgia, North Florida, and Eastern Alabama. It also handles poles and piling. On the woods side, its foresters mark the trees before any cutting begins, using single tree selection so the rest of the stand keeps growing. Its loggers are a mix of company and contract crews. The work is meant to be done "as if it was our own." After a harvest, its reforestation team can prepare the ground and plant pine seedlings, choosing the species from soil samples. It also offers tree planting and land management services. This suits a landowner who wants the marking, the cutting, and the replanting handled by one firm, with pine or hardwood on the land. From balfourtimbercompany.com, read 17 October 2026.

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Nashville, GA

Beasley Timber appears on the Georgia Forestry Commission's timber buyers directory, based in Nashville. The Commission compiles that directory from buyers and harvesters who submit their own information to it, and states that inclusion is not an endorsement. Georgia does not license or register timber buyers. The directory carries no county, so this listing is placed by its town only.

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Alapaha, GA

Dupont Pine Products, LLC is listed in the Georgia Forestry Commission's Wood-Using Industries directory as a sawmill-softwood facility in Berrien County, taking yellow pine. The Commission publishes the directory; it does not rate or endorse the facilities in it.

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Enigma, GA

Giddens Logging is on the Georgia Master Timber Harvester active roster, at Enigma, Berrien County. Georgia Master Timber Harvester is a training programme; the roster records a current designation and is not a rating, a licence, or an endorsement by anyone. The roster publishes no phone number, so there is none here.

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Alapaha, GA

Jta Timber Hauling Llc is on the Georgia Master Timber Harvester active roster, at Alapaha, Berrien County. Georgia Master Timber Harvester is a training programme; the roster records a current designation and is not a rating, a licence, or an endorsement by anyone. The roster publishes no phone number, so there is none here.

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Nashville, GA

Langdale Forest Products is on the Georgia Master Timber Harvester active roster, at Nashville, Berrien County. Georgia Master Timber Harvester is a training programme; the roster records a current designation and is not a rating, a licence, or an endorsement by anyone. The roster publishes no phone number, so there is none here.

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Nashville, GA

Ply Farms is on the Georgia Master Timber Harvester active roster, at Nashville, Berrien County. Georgia Master Timber Harvester is a training programme; the roster records a current designation and is not a rating, a licence, or an endorsement by anyone. The roster publishes no phone number, so there is none here.

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Timber Buyers, Loggers & Mills Nearby (1)

Businesses that buy, cut or mill timber in Berrien County, working from a nearby town.

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Faulkner Tree & Lumber Company, LLC is a logging contractor in Berrien County, Georgia. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.

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Questions landowners ask

How many timber buyers and foresters serve Berrien County?

10 businesses are listed for Berrien County: 2 consulting foresters and 8 buyers, loggers and mills. 9 of them have offices in the county.

How much is my timber worth in Berrien County?

Nobody can tell you what your timber is worth without walking it. Value depends on the species, the size and grade of the trees, how thickly they stand, the ground conditions and how easily a logger can reach them. University of Georgia Extension publishes an annual timber situation and outlook report with recent quarterly figures, which tells you what the market is doing, not what your tract holds. Anyone who quotes you a figure without seeing the land is guessing, and a guess in that direction is rarely in your favour.

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Do I need a forestry consultant to sell timber in Berrien County?

You do not have to use one. A consulting forester works for you rather than the buyer, marks the timber, runs a sealed-bid sale and typically charges a percentage of the sale. Research from several state extension services has found that timber sold through a consultant often returns enough more to cover the fee, though results vary by tract and by market. The decision usually turns on the size of the sale and whether you have sold timber before.

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Do I need a permit to cut timber in Georgia?

Georgia has no statewide permit for cutting timber on your own land, and state law forbids a county to require one or to charge a fee for a timber harvest notification. What a county may require is the notification itself: where its ordinance calls for one, the harvester files it before entering the property if possible and no later than 24 hours after entering, and the county may ask for a bond of up to $5,000 against damage to its roads. Not every county has an ordinance, so check with yours before work starts. Georgia's Best Management Practices are not a permit programme, but following them is how a harvest stays clear of the water-quality law that is enforceable.

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What is timber worth in Berrien County?

No price series is published for Berrien County on its own. Georgia's latest published stumpage figures (University of Georgia Extension, Q3 2025) put mixed hardwood sawtimber at $26–$32 per ton. What your own timber brings depends on the species, the size and amount of it, and how far it is from a mill. A timber cruise by a forester settles it.