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I just lay there awake in the middle of the night Thinking ’bout the wreck on the highway – Bruce Springsteen “Wreck on the highway” While driving on the interstate last week, I saw a fully-loaded car hauler that more…
North America’s forest industry is more consolidated and globally competitive today because of the accelerated retooling of older mills and investments in leading technologies by firms following the Great Recession. With the exception of plywood, all forest industry sectors across 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…
In the book “The End of Average,” author Todd Rose talks about the “tyranny of the average.” For any group of people, we can estimate an average height and average weight and average test score, and all of this leads 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…
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…