Designed for Landowners Focused on Long-Term Value

Unlike traditional open-pollinated seedlings, MCP® seedlings are developed through controlled pollination techniques that allow ArborGen researchers to intentionally combine elite parent trees with desirable complementary traits.

This additional level of genetic precision is designed to improve consistency, growth potential, stem quality, and long-term stand performance.

MCP® seedlings are designed for customers focused on maximizing the long-term productivity and value of every acre.

MCP® Pine Seedlings

This additional level of genetic precision is designed to improve consistency, growth potential, stem quality, and long-term stand performance.

MCP® seedlings are designed for customers focused on maximizing the long-term productivity and value of every acre.

MCP^® Product Categories

ArborGen’s MCP® product categories are based on overall genetic performance potential. As AG Scores increase, seedlings move into higher MCP® categories – helping landowners and foresters more easily compare options based on growth potential, stem quality, disease resistance, and long-term stand value

Mass Control Pollinated

Best For Boosting Sawtimber Potential And Overall Value

Our Mass Control Pollination pine tree seedlings deliver a significant performance increase in key economic traits of loblolly pine. Through controlled cross-pollination, MCP® seedlings produce higher sawtimber potential, improved stem form, and stronger disease resistance, offering a clear step up in value and productivity over standard OP seedlings.

Mass Control Pollinated Pro

Best For Maximizing Growth, Quality, And Harvest Returns

This category of seedlings delivers exceptional combinations of volume gain, stem straightness, disease resistance, and reduced forking, providing superior sawtimber potential and more uniform, high-value trees. MCP® Pro pine tree seedlings offer faster growth, fewer defects, and ameasurable increase in harvest revenue.

Mass Control Pollinated Pro+

Best For Top-Tier Investors Seeking The Highest Roi

The very best genetics available anywhere, exclusive crosses developed through ArborGen’s rigorous testing and breeding program. MCP® Pro+ pine tree seedlings deliver unmatched growth, quality, and sawtimber yield, ensuring maximum productivity and return per acre. These elite families represent ArborGen’s top-performing genetics and are not available anywhere else.

What is the AG Score?

The ArborGen Score, or AG Score, is an index that combines each family’s performance for productivity, rust resistance, stem straightness, and forking into a single number.

Available MCP^® Loblolly Pine Seedlings

ArborGen’s MCP® Loblolly Pine seedlings are developed to deliver strong performance across a variety of growing conditions throughout the Southeast. While all MCP® products are Loblolly Pine, each family is selected and tested for traits designed to perform best within specific regions, site conditions, and management goals.

By combining advanced genetics with extensive regional field testing, our MCP® offerings help landowners and foresters select seedlings with greater confidence based on where they plant and what they want their stand to achieve.

Explore available MCP® products by region to compare performance characteristics, AG Scores, and recommended applications.

Texas

Values based on internal ArborGen data and analyses. Per acre wood production and estimated value are based on regional averages for site index, silvicultural costs, and product prices. Stand projections are based on a one-thin regime with final harvest at age 31 years with initial stocking of 545 TPA. Harvest values are nominal including thinning revenue. Results are not guaranteed.

Volume Gain	Sawtimber Potential	Total Tons/Acre	ArborGen Score	$/Acre At Clearcut
65%	75%	211	86	$4,583
70%	80%	219	94	$4,897
80%	85%	227	103	$5,176

Arkansas

Values based on internal ArborGen data and analyses. Per acre wood production and estimated value are based on regional averages for site index, silvicultural costs, and product prices. Stand projections are based on a two-thin regime with final harvest at age 31 years with initial stocking of 519 TPA. Harvest values are nominal including thinning revenue. Results are not guaranteed.

Volume Gain	Sawtimber Potential	Total Tons/Acre	ArborGen Score	$/Acre At Clearcut
90%	60%	215	83	$4,810
95%	75%	223	93	$5,693
100%	75%	235	112	$6,149

Piedmont

Values based on internal ArborGen data and analyses. Per acre wood production and estimated value are based on regional averages for site index, silvicultural costs, and product prices. Stand projections are based on a two-thin regime with final harvest at age 31 years with initial stocking of 545 TPA. Harvest values are nominal including thinning revenue. Results are not guaranteed.

Volume Gain	Sawtimber Potential	Total Tons/Acre	ArborGen Score	$/Acre At Clearcut
50%	70%	240	81	$5,111
55%	75%	248	91	$5,511
65%	75%	263	113	$6,193

Northern

Values based on internal ArborGen data and analyses. Per acre wood production and estimated value are based on regional averages for site index, silvicultural costs, and product prices. Stand projections are based on a one-thin regime with final harvest at age 27 years with initial stocking of 545 TPA. Harvest values are nominal including thinning revenue. Results are not guaranteed.

Type	Volume Gain	Sawtimber Potential	Total Tons/Acre	ArborGen Score	$/Acre At Clearcut
	90%	75%	187	80	$2,744
	90%	80%	191	97	$2,884

Coastal

Values based on internal ArborGen data and analyses. Per acre wood production and estimated value are based on regional averages for site index, silvicultural costs, and product prices. Stand projections are based on a one-thin regime with final harvest at age 24 years with initial stocking of 545 TPA. Harvest values are nominal including thinning revenue. Results are not guaranteed.

Volume Gain	Sawtimber Potential	Total Tons/Acre	ArborGen Score	$/Acre At Clearcut
65%	75%	211	86	$4,583
70%	80%	219	94	$4,897
80%	85%	227	103	$5,176

Let’s Find the Right Genetics for Your Land

Every property, site condition, and management strategy is different. Our Reforestation Advisors can help you evaluate MCP® options and recommend genetics aligned with your long-term goals.

Forestry Consultant Clay Creed, on his success with MCP® seedlings.

Forestry Consultant, Perry Clements, on his success with MCP® seedlings from ArborGen

Frequently Asked Questions

Choosing the right genetics is an important long-term decision, and it’s natural to have questions about performance, value, site suitability, and management goals. Here are answers to some of the most common questions landowners and forestry professionals ask when evaluating MCP® pine seedlings.

For many landowners and forestry professionals, the decision comes down to long-term stand value. MCP® seedlings are developed to improve traits like growth potential, stem quality, disease resistance, and stand consistency – all of which can influence future harvest value over the life of the rotation.

The right investment level depends on your management goals, site conditions, and long-term objectives.

The best MCP® category depends on your site conditions, management strategy, rotation goals, and investment priorities.

Some landowners prioritize balanced performance and improved stand quality, while others focus on maximizing long-term productivity and sawtimber potential. ArborGen Reforestation Advisors can help evaluate which product category best aligns with your objectives.

Yes. Different MCP® families are selected and tested to perform best within specific regions and growing conditions throughout the Southeast.

Factors like soil type, rainfall, climate, disease pressure, and management strategy all influence which genetics may be the best fit for a particular property.

Developing advanced forest genetics is a long-term process. Before ArborGen MCP® families are commercially available, they undergo years of breeding, controlled pollination, field testing, data collection, and performance evaluation across multiple environments and locations.

This long-term research helps ensure the genetics released to customers are supported by real-world performance data.

No. MCP® seedlings can benefit a wide range of landowners and forestry professionals, from family landowners managing smaller tracts to large-scale timber operations.

Because forestry is a long-term investment, many customers choose advanced genetics to help maximize the potential and value of every acre regardless of tract size.

MCP® seedlings are selected for traits like stem straightness, reduced forking, improved growth, and stand uniformity – all of which contribute to producing a higher percentage of quality sawtimber trees over time.

Improved stem quality and consistency can help increase the long-term value of a stand at harvest.

Advanced genetics help improve performance predictability by selecting for traits associated with stronger stand development and long-term productivity. While no seedling can eliminate environmental or management-related risks, MCP® seedlings are designed to help improve overall stand potential and consistency.

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A practical guide covering seedling handling, storage, planting techniques, and best practices designed to help support successful stand establishment in the field.

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