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This excerpt from the Q4 2021 issue of the Forisk Wood Fiber Review highlights our coverage of Western Canada where a series of damaging events in November saw bad news piled on worse news. It is just as well that more…
For softwood lumber producers in North America, 2021 was a year of opportunity. Lumber prices skyrocketed in the first half of the year to unprecedented highs, then fell back to normal ranges in the third quarter. As we close the more…
The biology and science of growing trees has an uneasy and inconsistent relationship with the economics of pricing timber. Like hair, forests grow. Unfortunately, U.S. wood use declined 34% during the Great Recession. Fortunately, over the past five years alone, more…
Time has a funny way of passing. Sometimes it seems to zoom by (college years) and others it just crawls (high school lectures on voodoo economics). For an industry grounded in decades-long timeframes, forestry can sometimes feel quite dynamic. This more…
This blog represents our fourth and final update on timberland sales year-to-date. Earlier this year, we peered into our magic eight-ball for a sense of what the marketplace may hold for 2021. The prediction was murky and frustratingly kept settling more…
This post is the third in a series related to the Q4 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis, timber price forecasts, and featured research on timber supplies in the Pacific Northwest. Over the past 10 months, more…
This post is the second in a series related to the Q4 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis, timber price forecasts, and featured research on timber supplies in the Pacific Northwest. When investing in timber assets, we more…
This post is the first in a series related to the Q4 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis, timber price forecasts, and featured research on forest carbon. The U.S. housing market dipped slightly in September, largely more…
A timberland investment, in and of itself, comprises a bundle of diversified cash flows. The sources of these flows include softwood and hardwood logs and fiber, hunting leases, cell phone towers and, increasingly, ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration. These more…
Wet ground from South Carolina to Texas hampered harvesting operations and pushed third quarter southern pulpwood prices higher. At least seven named storms landed in the South since June, dousing portions of the Gulf states. Hardwood, which often grows in more…