IA timber buyer bonds.
Flat 3%. Enter your amount.
Iowa requires a timber buyer (or buyer’s agent) to file a surety bond with the Department of Natural Resources before cutting any trees, under Iowa Code § 456A.36. The amount scales from $500 up to a $10,000 maximum by your prior-year purchases. We issue it at a flat 3% with no credit check.
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No underwriting queue for the standard timber bond — enter your amount, pay, and file with the DNR. Here is the whole thing:
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Your business details, the bond amount your purchases require, and the effective date — that is the entire application.
Issued on the spot
No credit check and no waiting — the executed bond is generated as soon as you pay.
File with the DNR
Submit the executed bond with your timber buyer application to the Iowa DNR Forestry Bureau before cutting. Wet-ink originals mailed on request.
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Bond amount × 3% = your premium, one-time, $275 minimum. Enter the figure your purchases require and the premium updates.
What it is and who needs it.
What the timber bond actually covers
Iowa requires anyone buying standing timber for resale to register as a timber buyer and file a surety bond with the Department of Natural Resources before cutting, under Iowa Code § 456A.36. Buying or cutting without a bond on file is a serious misdemeanor.
The bond is conditioned on honest cutting and accounting, on payment to the timber growers, and on protecting growers against fraudulent acts in the purchase and cutting of Iowa timber. If a buyer shorts or defrauds a grower, the grower can recover against the bond.
The amount is $500 for a buyer who paid growers $5,000 or less last year, plus $100 for each additional $1,000 paid — capped at $10,000. A buyer may, with DNR approval, post a bank certificate of deposit instead of a corporate surety. Enter your figure and we issue at a flat 3% with no credit check.
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Submit the application with your required bond amount — the executed bond is generated instantly, ready to file with the DNR.
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Five-minute application, flat 3%, $275 minimum. Enter your amount and file with the DNR the same day.