in case anyone is as confused as I am... quick sumup
2009 TON the last bullet in the intro:
"Because of the increasingly large volumes of lumber coming from the farms, our focus, and that of our entire company, now needs to turn exclusively to 1) continuing to groom the trees that we have already planted, 2) producing the greatest amount of the highest quality lumber from those trees as they mature, and 3) implementing the higher-volume value-adding production and marketing for the increasing flow of younger lumber from our early thinnings in order to speed up the utilization of the wood and distributions to you, our tree owners. To be able to devote our complete focus to these paramount objectives, Sherry and I have decided that 2009 will be our last public planting of new trees for the foreseeable future. "
#1 grooming trees already planted ... i have zero evidence to support that this is happening
#2 lumber coming from the trees, ie thinnings, i have zero evidence that this is happening this year
#3 high volume production of products, i have zero evidence that this is happening either
#4 an end to the public planting, i have good evidence that this ISN'T happening ... they are still selling trees on their website
as far as current investors are concerned, TATF needs to do a wee bit better with their communication ... so far they are batting zero, getting new tree owners is great, but there is very little evidence that current tree owners interests are being looked after
-Mattyo
