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When tracking wood demand and timber markets, we look not only to the past and to the future for guidance, but also to the side – peripherally – to gauge performance across markets and sectors. Heather Clark, our Customer Relations more…
What are the wood supply and timber market implications from emerging bioenergy demand? We just published a white paper on this topic commissioned by the National Alliance of Forest Owners (NAFO). The research was motivated by concerns about potential impacts more…
Last week, I met with the CEO of one of world’s largest forest management and consulting firms. We ended up discussing a mutually perplexing question, “why do some timberland investors prioritize macro issues like housing at the expense of understanding more…
This year, Amanda Lang, our Director of Wood Bioenergy Research, has led efforts to enhance the investment-relevant insights from Wood Bioenergy US, the Forisk publication that tracks all announced and operating wood-using bioenergy projects in the US. As of the September more…
According to the August edition of Wood Bioenergy US, the number of announced and operating wood-consuming bioenergy projects in the United States increased from 457 in July to 462 in August. However, the volume of total wood use that passed more…
Despite optimism that pine grade demand would increase during Q2 2011 in the US South, it fell slightly by 0.6% to 18.4 million tons at 424 mills that consumed pine grade. Although small, this was the first drop since Q3 more…
Major League Baseball turned to the US Forest Service to evaluate the “epidemic” of wood baseball bats breaking during baseball games. The Associated Press recently reported how research engineer Dave Kretschmann at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin has more…
The May issue of Wood Bioenergy US indicates that, as of May 25, 2011: The continental US has 453 wood-consuming, announced and operating bioenergy projects. In total, these projects represent potential, incremental wood use of 130 million green tons/year by 2021. more…
Between April 25th and April 29th, all four public timberland-owning REITs reported their Q1 2011 financial performance. Three of the four firms reported earnings per share below Wall Street consensus expectations: Overall, results continue to reflect the US housing downturn more…
Our team at Forisk just released its 2011 timber (stumpage) forecast for pine sawtimber and pulpwood for the US South and by state. Overall, we show increasing demand for wood raw materials and higher pine stumpage prices for forest owners more…