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This post includes topics addressed in further detail, and with a forest industry case study and summary financials, in the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on March 14th, 2024. Investment capital is constrained and limited in most industries, especially in more…
This post is the second in a series related to the Q1 2024 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. Introduction The U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program released a more…
This post includes topics addressed in the Q1 2024 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) and the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on March 14th, 2024. Timberland markets remain extremely competitive as investors struggle to acquire assets. Quotes from Forisk conversations with more…
North American wood fiber prices decreased 8% year-over-year through Q4 2023 according to the Forisk Wood Fiber Review (FWFR). Continued soft demand from pulp and paper mills, decreasing foreign demand, and generally favorable logging conditions contributed to the fiber oversupply more…
Visitor traffic on the Forisk Blog in 2023 increased 12.8% over 2022. Thank you for reading and sharing this content with others! Here are top posts from 2023, along with a few popular posts by topic: Pros and Cons of more…
This post includes topics addressed in the Q1 2024 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) and the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on March 14th, 2024. In the Q2 and Q3 2022 editions of the Forisk Research Quarterly, I wrote about forecasting more…
Following the start of the conflict, many western countries and their allies imposed strict economic sanctions on Russia and many major European utilities halted biomass purchases from Russia, as discussed in the Q2 2022 FRQ. According to data from FutureMetrics, more…
This blog includes data from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review, a quarterly publication tracking North America’s major wood fiber markets. For more information, please visit www.forisk.com. There are plenty of residual chips available in the northwest US, with consuming mills reporting more…
Utilization is the act of making practical use of something. For industrial purposes, utilization is the percent of name plate capacity used to produce a product; it is calculated as production divided by capacity for a set time period. Forisk more…
This post is the fourth in a series related to the Q4 2023 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) which includes forest industry analysis, timber price projections, and featured research on forest industry ability to pay for wood raw material. The housing sector more…