Timberland Investments: Physical Facts Affect Technology, Tariffs, and Trying to Increase Harvests from Public Forests

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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…

Analyzing Timber Markets to Customize Forecasts and Make Investment Decisions

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In the forest industry, we study timber markets and the underlying data to understand relationships and risks. For timberland investing and the procurement of wood, systematic frameworks and proven processes help us analyze and compare markets and wood baskets to more…

Local Timber Supply and Growth-to-Drain in the U.S. South

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This post is the first in a series related to the Q3 2024 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. The post includes excerpts from the Feature Article. Introduction Forisk’s clients have more…

Has Russia followed through with its 2022 log export ban?

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In the Q2 2022 FRQ, we discussed Russia’s self-imposed ban on exporting “wood in the rough” starting in early 2022, in hopes of spurring their internal forest products industry. At that time, imports into the EU Trade Zone and China more…