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This post is the second in a series related to the Q1 2024 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. Introduction The U.S. Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program released a more…
The biology and science of growing trees has an uneasy and inconsistent relationship with the economics of pricing timber. Like hair, forests grow. Unfortunately, U.S. wood use declined 34% during the Great Recession. Fortunately, over the past five years alone, more…
Time has a funny way of passing. Sometimes it seems to zoom by (college years) and others it just crawls (high school lectures on voodoo economics). For an industry grounded in decades-long timeframes, forestry can sometimes feel quite dynamic. This more…
Investors and analysts can tend to “boil the ocean” – to analyze everything – in evaluating opportunities or new markets. In forestry, this is especially the case with first-time investors in the industry. However, at some point, we need to more…
This post is the fourth in a series related to the Q3 2021 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis, timber price forecasts, and featured research on forest management practices. Pulp & paper production increased in the U.S. more…
In capturing a quarterly “snapshot” of fiber prices by region across North America, the Forisk Wood Fiber Review (FWFR) also summarizes market trends and investments. Fevered lumber prices appear to have broken due to a combination of producers (sawmills) catching more…
This post is the fourth in a series related to the Q3 2020 Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), which includes forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. The post includes excerpts from our Regional Summary for the U.S. South. more…
This is the fifth in a series related to the Q4 2019 Forisk Research Quarterly’s (FRQ) forest industry analysis and timber price forecasts for North America. Hurricane Michael hit the Florida panhandle and southwest Georgia as a category 5 hurricane on more…
On September 24, 2018, China implemented additional tariffs on over 5,000 U.S. products worth $60 billion. The levies cover certain logs and chips at either a 5% or 10% rate. These tariffs were in retaliation to the 10% duty placed more…
This is the fourth in a series related to the Q4 2018 Forisk Research Quarterly and Forisk’s annual “Wood Flows & Cash Flows” event on December 13th in Atlanta. This post includes an excerpt from the Q4 2018 Forisk Research Quarterly more…