Selling Timber in Buchanan County, MO

American Walnut Co buys standing timber and logs out of St. Joseph, Missouri, and runs a sawmill there too. They buy within about a 200 mile radius of St. Joseph for standing timber, and up to 300 miles for log purchases. They cut "standing timber in a variety of sizes and species" and are insured. Their main interest is American black walnut, along with other selected hardwoods. For log sales, they want 40 logs or more, or 20 trees or more, if you're outside that smaller radius. If you have less than that, you'd need to bring logs to their yard on South 2nd Street yourself. If you're interested in a sale, you call them to arrange a bid, and timber and logs get measured out by board foot using Doyle's scale. If you have fewer logs or trees than their 40-log or 20-tree mark, this probably isn't the place to start, since that's the line they draw for buying in the field rather than at their yard. They say they practice "sustainable harvesting of hardwood trees" and describe their approach as "conservative timberland management resulting in a self-perpetuating supply of American black walnut and other selected hardwoods." The company has been producing and distributing its products since 1924. This fits a landowner in Buchanan County, Missouri, or within easy reach of St. Joseph, who has a real stand of walnut or other hardwood timber, enough volume to make it worth a buyer coming out, and wants a straightforward call-and-bid process rather than a drawn-out consultation. From americanwalnut.com, read 8 October 2026.

One Family Hardwood is a sawmill in St Joseph, Missouri, and it also buys standing timber and cut logs direct from landowners. It serves Buchanan County. They saw High Quality Kiln Dried American Hardwood Lumber, along with fresh sawn green lumber, wood chips, firewood, blocking, dunnage, decking, industrial timbers, wheel chocks, pipe saddles, and custom cut products. The species they buy include Ash, Aspen, Basswood (Lynn), Cottonwood, Cherry, Coffee, Elm (Red or Grey), Hackberry, Hickory (or Pecan), Locust, Maple (Soft or Hard Maple), Red Oak, Sycamore, Walnut, and White Oak. They buy logs year round, and they say "Standing Timber and Cut Logs are the most profitable to you (the landowner) when sold directly to a sawmill." Note that they will not purchase yard trees. Call to talk through your standing timber, forest, farm trees, or cut logs, and ask for Steve. One Family Hardwood is a large quantity commercial and industrial producer, but will also work with retail customers for smaller orders. The mill is located in northwest Missouri, about 50 miles north of Kansas City and just south of St Joseph, and ships product across North America. This one suits a landowner near St Joseph who wants to sell logs or standing timber straight to the mill that will saw them, cutting out a middleman. From 1fhw.net, read 3 October 2026.