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Aunt Fanny sighed loudly and kicked the dirt. A pinecone ricocheted off a nearby white oak before landing in a mound of dirt and leaves. Two dogs barked in the distance. “Nephew, I have a few thoughts regarding the value more…
Forestry professionals continually grapple with the most effective and “context appropriate” ways to report timberland investment performance and forest sustainability. How do we compare results in forestry for questions ranging from cash flows to wood flows? Once you get through more…
For wood users and timberland investors in the United States, global and national analyses, while useful, can mislead when thinking through the relevance of wood bioenergy in specific local markets. Wood bioenergy, as a “point source” of wood demand for more…
My Aunt Fanny, retired after 30 plus years with a regional community bank, inherited 220 acres of forestland in middle Georgia. Since then, she’s peppered me with questions and seduced me with Mentos in order to get a better understanding more…
This post includes data from the Q1 2015 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) chapter on U.S. North hardwood markets. The old joke, “Why did the sawmill owner sell his mill? Because he was board,” does not apply to hardwood lumber operations. more…
This post includes excerpts from the Q1 2015 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) chapter on timberland investment vehicles and ownership. Institutional investors looking to add timberlands to their portfolios and timber REITs looking to grow their asset base both face the more…
This post includes excerpts from the Q1 2015 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ). U.S. builders and homeowners use a lot of structural panels – oriented strand board (OSB) and plywood – to build and remodel homes. Timberland investors and managers care more…
This post includes excerpts from the Q1 2015 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ). The chapter on wood bioenergy details the current status and expected progress of the wood pellet, wood electricity and wood biofuels sectors in the United States, and their more…
This is the third in a series related to Forisk’s Q1 2015 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States. Before projecting forward, we ground ourselves by looking back and evaluating the performance of previous forecasts and more…
This is the second in a series related to Forisk’s Q1 2015 forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for the United States. We use “sensitivity analysis” to test the relative importance of inputs in our models. Is this assumption more…