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Global Forestry Updates government policy, product prices and cost inflation, said

the report.
The value of UK commercial forestry market surges in Xander Mahony, head of forestry investment for Tilhill
2025 Forestry, said: “Forestry and farming have often been slightly
The UK Forest Market Report 2025, published by Goldcrest uncomfortable bedfellows in the rural space. Today, there are
Land & Forestry Group and BSW Group’s Tilhill Forestry, perhaps more pressing shared challenges than the relatively

showed a 50 percent uplift in commercial forestry listings in minor skirmishes between us.”
2024, according to ttjonline.com. The total value of the commercial forestry market was
In 2025 the report also focuses on exploring the dynamics £140 million. This is lower than the listings from 2020 to
between farming and forestry and their shared challenges in 2023 which reached approximately £200 million each year,
a tough economic climate. but higher than in the years preceding the pandemic and 50
Farmers and foresters may not be in the same boat, percent higher than 2024.
but they are in the same storm, said forestry experts at the A total of 9,200ha were listed on the market, 70 percent
launch of the report. up on 2024 with just four listings accounting for half of the
Communication and collaboration on land use were key as total area. The average price per stocked hectare was £19,200,

forestry and farming faced “common uncertainties” including up three percent.

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