Who is More Important, Your (Forest) Economist or Your (Forest) Operations Manager?

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“The future is not something to be predicted, but to be made.”  – Professor Nick Montfort in The Future (The MIT Press, 2017) Discussions of inverted yield curves and equity dividend yields purport to clarify the tea leaves of investor intents more…

Forisk Publishes New Research and Market Rankings That Show How Forest Industry Opportunities Vary by Investor Type

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Where on the map should investors put capital to work in the U.S. forest industry? New research shows how the answer differs for timberland investors, sawtimber consumers, and users of pulpwood. Forisk’s 2019 North American Forest Market & Industry Rankings scores local more…

Who’s Who in Lumber 2019 Update: Top 10 U.S. Lumber Producers

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Forisk tracks wood-using facilities in North America’s forest products industry to study capital allocation, wood demand, and forest technology trends. Lumber producers have been rationalizing capacity, investing in and expanding some mills while shuttering others across portfolios over the past more…