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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…
Ten years ago, Forisk launched our flagship research product, the Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which compiles our analysis on the major forest industry sectors; forecasts of wood supply, demand, prices, and their key drivers; and rotating featured research covering a more…
Raw material exports to China are on track for a fourth straight annual decline, with annualized 2024 volume to China down 59% from its 2018 peak. Hardwood chip volumes are down 9% from the 2018 peak, while hardwood log exports more…
In October, we reported in the Q4 2024 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) our revised outlook for commercial timber inventory across the coastal Pacific Northwest (PNW) region. Our revised outlook for inventory over the next 10 years was generated from updates more…
This is part two of a series evaluating the impacts of Hurricane Helene on timber markets in Georgia. Part one can be viewed here. Following Hurricane Helene’s landfall on September 26, 2024, multiple organizations put in a lot of work more…
This blog includes data from Forisk’s North American Mill Capacity Database, a database of over 2,300 wood-using mills in North America. For more information on the mill database or Forisk’s other products, please visit www.forisk.com or contact Nick DiLuzio at ndiluzio@forisk.com. more…
Prepared by: Thomas Black, Forisk Intern Southern softwood sawmills invested heavily over the past 10-15 years to gain efficiency. Lumber conversion rates, also known as recovery rates, overrun, or underrun, represent a ratio of tons of feedstock consumed to produce more…
When localizing forest supplies, mill capacities, forest operations, and pricing, each timber market produces a unique profile. This uniqueness highlights how timberland valuations, wood procurement strategies, and forest management plans get customized to optimize the market and company assets. Recently, more…
Introduction Since last quarter, housing markets remained sluggish amidst falling inflation and a slowdown in labor markets. While the federal reserve lowered its policy rate last month to support labor market conditions, the realization of this policy change in the more…
This is part one of a series evaluating the impacts of Hurricane Helene on timber markets in Georgia. On September 26, 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida as a Category 4 storm. Helene entered more…