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In reading about the pulp and paper industry, so much news focuses on the declines in printing and writing paper and newsprint. True, North American paper and paperboard production declined 25% since the start of the 2000’s, but the industry more…
This is the fifth in a series related to Forisk’s Q3 2018 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States and Canada. Almost everything I hear about logging these days relates to trucking and the challenges of finding more…
This is the fifth in a series related to Forisk’s Q2 2018 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States and Canada. The post includes an excerpt from the Forest Operations chapter. I had the opportunity to attend more…
While I hesitate to use the phrase “can’t see the forest for the trees” when analyzing the timber industry, it does feel relevant when tracking trends and processing the floods of data coming at us in the modern world. Peter more…
Last week Forisk hosted a “Wood Flows & Cash Flows” event in Atlanta where we discussed a range of our research applications. Included were detailed case studies and rankings of markets and wood demand, forest supplies, timberland ownership, bioenergy, and more…
This post includes an excerpt from research published in the Q4 2017 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ). The post-recession U.S. South currently features unresponsive timber prices, despite increases in housing and lumber production. While trends associated with industry consolidation and efficiency play more…
This is the second in a series related to Forisk’s Q4 2017 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States and Canada. A cartoon from my youth, the Rocky and Bullwinkle show, sometimes featured Dudley Do-Right, a more…
This is the second installment in our discussion of the 2017 Hurricane season’s impacts on the forest industry. See Part I for additional analysis. Brooks Mendell, Andrew Copley and Justin Tyson contributed to this blog. The closest comparison we have more…
Below is an excerpt from a Q3 2017 article in the Forisk Research Quarterly examining issues affecting commercial automobile insurance and log truck insurance specifically. Large swaths of the general public still have no idea what modern logging entails. Even in areas with extensive more…
The Western United States is a major supplier of raw materials for the forest industry, producing over 40% of U.S. softwood lumber. Despite the abundance of federal land in the area, nearly 80% of the harvested volumes from Oregon and more…