Selling Timber in Marshall County, IL

Billy Poignant Logging is a logging contractor in Lacon, Illinois. It has a Google Maps business listing in that category. A listing here is not an endorsement.

MK Timber Exporting and Appraisals, LLC is a timber harvesting and buying company based in Lacon, Illinois. They work with landowners in central Illinois who have black walnut, white oak, and other mature, desirable trees, and they pay you for the trees before the harvest starts. Here is how a sale runs: they meet you on your property, appraise what you have, and give you a quote. That same visit is also a chance to talk over forest management and best practices for your woods. If you accept the quote, they pay you for every tree slated for harvest, then they get to work. Their words: "when the quote is accepted, we pay you for all of the trees slated for harvest." They practice selective harvesting rather than clearcutting, taking the large, mature trees that have closed off the canopy, which lets light back down to the smaller trees and other plants below. They cover a roughly 60-mile radius out of Lacon, naming Marshall, Putnam, LaSalle, Livingston, McLean, Woodford, Tazewell, Fulton, Peoria, Knox, Stark, Henry, Bureau, and Mason counties. They state a minimum of 10 acres of wooded land, and they want it made up of several mature, desirable species like black walnut and white oak, not a single tree or two. In their own words, they "do not serve individuals outside of central Illinois, city residents or anyone with undesirable trees or single or small quantities of desirable trees." This fits a central Illinois landowner with a real stand of walnut or oak on 10 acres or more, who wants to be paid up front and is open to a selective cut rather than a clearcut. From mk-timber.com, read 10 October 2026.

Poignant Logging is a timber buyer and logging company based in Lacon, Illinois, right along the Illinois River. They buy standing timber and logs, and also do the logging work themselves. It's a family business, run by LeRoy Poignant and now his son Grant, going back to 1991. They focus on Walnut, White Oak, Red Oak, Maple, Cherry, and Sycamore, buying veneer quality saw logs and standing timber. The work includes standing timber purchasing, sustainable forestry and logging, selective harvest hardwood management, and reforestation afterward. They say they'll "only select timber that is mature and ready for harvest," leaving younger trees to grow. Their stated goal is "to leave your land in better shape than we found it." They serve Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin, with Marshall County, Illinois named as an area they cover, and a second location in Whitesboro, Texas. They also export veneer and hardwood logs, including abroad. This fits a landowner with Walnut or White Oak on the property who wants a buyer that handles both the purchase and the logging, and who values a long-running, hands-on family operation rather than a broker passing the job along to someone else. From poignantlogs.com, read 10 October 2026.