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This post includes content from the Q3 2026 Forisk Research Quarterly and ideas covered in the virtual Timber Market Analysis class, offered on September 30th and October 1st, 2026. I, for one, am grateful about the carefully implemented, clearly explained, and practically practical effort more…
The United Kingdom is the largest consumer of industrial wood pellets in the world, with three large dedicated biomass power stations. Two power stations (Drax Group and Lynemouth Power Station) were converted from coal. The third, Teeside Renewable Energy Station, more…
This post includes ideas and an excerpt of analysis from the Q2 2026 Forisk Research Quarterly. Introduction When it comes to making choices and decisions, I think we overvalue “best,” we underappreciate “good” and “effective” and “better,” and we fail more…
Last year, Forisk published a blog about the questions Forisk’s Custom Market Forecast (CMF) can answer for firms making investment and operating decisions in the timber and forest industries. After a year of delivering CMFs to clients, we developed case more…
In the Q4 2022 edition of the Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), we analyzed the success rate of export pellet projects making it to the groundbreaking phase. This post is a spiritual successor to that sidebar. Leveraging over ten years of more…
This post is an excerpt from the Q1 2026 Forisk Wood Fiber Review (WFR), which provides a quarterly review of pulpwood, chips, biomass markets and trade in the U.S. and Canada. Introduction Mill and Forest biomass refer to woody material more…
This post includes themes from Forisk’s FRQ research and the (virtual) Applied Forest Finance course on March 31st, 2026. Early registration ends March 17th* Introduction On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel initiated joint strikes on Iranian and more…
This post is an excerpt from the Q2 2025 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. In the wood pellet industry, labor costs are often one of the top three 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…
U.S. wood pellet production facilities can be classified into two categories: “industrial grade,” which is mostly produced in the South and “domestic use grade,” which is primarily produced in the East and West. In addition to different end uses, the more…