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This post includes themes from the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on April 3rd, 2025. Early registration ends March 20th! Participants also receive copies of the new 7th edition of Forest Finance Simplified. We learn by doing. This is true more…
This post includes data from Forisk’s North American Timberland Transactions Database and research from the Forisk Research Quarterly. 2024 was another below average year for U.S. timberland transactions. With about 1.0 million acres changing hands, 2024 fell in line more…
This post includes themes from the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on April 3rd, 2025. Early registration ends March 20th! Over the past 30 years, the ownership and management of private industrial forestland has changed. Fewer forest owning firms are more…
Softwood lumber prices finally exceeded break-even levels at the end of 2024 but not before many lumber producers reduced capacity. Total 2023 North American softwood lumber production capacity was over 75 billion board feet (BBFT). North American lumber capacity increased more…
This post includes themes from the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on April 3rd, 2025. Early registration ends March 20th! The investable universe for institutional timberland in the U.S. is modest compared to markets for stocks, bonds, currencies, or real more…
This post is an excerpt from the Q1 2025 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. Hurricane Helene On September 26, 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend region of more…
Between reporting on artificial intelligence and the Luka Doncic trade to the LA Lakers, news leaked about potential U.S. tariffs on imports from Canada. While headlines screamed – see the January 31st The Wall Street Journal editorial “The Dumbest Trade more…
Review of 2024 The U.S. economy is currently on stable footing. Inflation remained close to 3% in 2024, down from its post-pandemic peak of over 7%. Unemployment rose only 3 tenths of a percentage point throughout 2024, remaining close to 4%. more…
This post includes themes from the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on April 3rd, 2025. Early registration ends March 20th! Class attendees will receive eBooks for the soon-to-be released 7th Edition of Forest Finance Simplified and 2nd Edition of Aunt Fanny Learns more…
Thank you for reading the Forisk blog and sharing this content with others! The Forisk team posted 42 articles to our blog in 2024. Here are the top blog posts from 2024, along with a few other honorable mention posts: more…