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This blog includes data from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review, a quarterly publication tracking North America’s major wood fiber markets. For more information, please visit www.forisk.com. At first glance, the Q1 2024 increase in whole-log chip prices might look like that portion more…
This blog includes data from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review, a quarterly publication tracking North America’s major wood fiber markets. For more information, please visit www.forisk.com. There are plenty of residual chips available in the northwest US, with consuming mills reporting more…
This post is the third in a series related to the Q4 2023 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. U.S. South Southern pine inventories increase 10% in ten years to a more…
This blog includes data from the Forisk Wood Fiber Review, a quarterly publication tracking North America’s major wood fiber markets. For more information, please visit www.forisk.com. The paper and packaging slowdown has reached into a third consecutive quarter and has more…
This post highlights featured research on our 2023 western silviculture survey from the Q2 2023 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. In 2023, Forisk completed our fourth survey of western more…
We have been getting questions from clients about pulp markets as pulpmills across the country cut back production and wood purchases. Stephen Wright, the Product Manager of Forisk’s Wood Fiber Review, discussed market trends with procurement managers and timberland owners more…
This post is the second in a series related to the Q4 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis, timber price forecasts, and featured research on timber supplies in the Pacific Northwest. When investing in timber assets, we more…
This post highlights featured research from the Q3 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. Each year we collect data on silviculture practices of large landowners and managers, alternating annually more…
Continued high lumber prices encouraged sawmills to maintain aggressive production levels in Q1 2021, further increasing residual chip supplies in the Northwest. The return of two fiber consumers to the region— Cosmo Specialty Fiber in Washington and the Roseburg Forest more…
“Better a diamond with a flaw, than a pebble without” – Confucious No measure is perfect. BMI, EBITDA, OPS+, all of these provide a relatively simple picture of something: weight, earnings, or offensive production. None of them tells the whole more…