High timber prices push Finnish forest owners to a record year

There is one group in Finland that has little reason to complain about the timber market: forest owners. Timber sales generated a record EUR 3.7 billion in stumpage revenues in 2025, according to the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke). Adjusted for inflation, that was 3% more than a year earlier and the highest figure ever recorded. The number matters because most of the money stayed where the trees grow. About EUR 3.1 billion flowed directly to private forest owners, who received 84% of all stumpage revenues. In regions such as North Savo, North Karelia and ...