Pierce Lumber, Inc
About Pierce Lumber, Inc
Pierce Lumber, Inc is a band sawmill in Belle Plaine, Iowa, "producer of fine Northern hardwoods and kiln-dried lumber." It's been running since 1977. The mill works with rift and quartered white oak, red oak, walnut, cherry, hard maple, soft maple, ash, hickory, red elm, and grey elm, plus width sorted white oak and walnut, chips, and bark and mulch. Its main products are blocking, cants, grade lumber, pallet lumber, rough lumber, and mulch, and it has offered kiln drying. Procurement reaches out to a 200 mile radius, and it's listed as serving Benton County. There's no minimum tract size given, and the business doesn't spell out a timber sale or harvest process, so a landowner with standing timber to sell would want to call and ask directly how that works with them. This looks like a fit for someone closer to selling logs or sawtimber into a working mill than someone needing a forester to walk their woods and plan a harvest. From piercelumber.com, read 10 October 2026.
Can they handle a timber sale?
Selling standing timber properly takes three things. Here's what the state register credits this firm with.
Timber AppraisalAn estimate of what your standing timber is worth in dollars, based on how much there is, its quality, and current prices. When you are selling, settling an estate, dividing property, or need a value for taxes or insurance.What does this mean? → — not listed
works out what your standing timber is worth
Timber Cruise & Volume EstimateA field measurement of your standing trees — their species, sizes, and quality — that adds up to how much wood you actually have. Before you sell, so you go in knowing roughly what is out there rather than taking a buyer's word for it.What does this mean? → — not listed
measures and grades what's actually out there
Timber Sale & Contract AdministrationRunning the sale for you: advertising the timber, taking bids, writing the contract, and overseeing the logging so the agreed terms are met. When you want someone on your side handling the whole sale rather than dealing with buyers and loggers yourself.What does this mean? → — not listed
runs the sale and handles the contract
This firm isn't credited with all three, which doesn't make it a worse forester — plenty specialise in management planning, wildlife or wetlands. It does mean that if your goal is to sell timber, you'd likely need someone else for the part that's missing.
Everything they're registered for
Pierce Lumber, Inc
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