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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 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…
Recently, at the CANOPY forestland investment conference in Portland, I participated on a panel about pulpwood markets in the U.S. South. While the region enjoys abundant forest resources and dozens of new wood-using mills, it has also seen the closure 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 or contact Nick DiLuzio at ndiluzio@forisk.com. more…
This post includes data from the Q3 2024 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) and Forisk’s new digital platform for the North American Mill Capacity Database. Over the past 50 years, major shifts in the regional distribution of lumber capacity across North more…
This blog includes data from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review, a quarterly publication tracking North America’s major wood fiber markets. For more information, please visit www.forisk.com or contact Nick DiLuzio at ndiluzio@forisk.com. The slight increase in Douglas fir pulplog prices in Q2 more…
At Forisk, we often evaluate our past performance to learn from, and improve, our work. Our forecast scorecards, published in every issue of our Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), are the most visible evidence of this practice. However our team often more…
This post introduces research and topics that will be addressed in the Q2 2024 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. Good questions clarify our context, risks, and options. Well-structured questions more…