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Confusion and Volatility Did Little to Stymie Softwood Lumber Demand: Feb 14, 2018
Last week has started to come out actual data of timber supply loss due to wildfires in northwest North America, and it’s really bad. Details to come. Otherwise, lumber demand continued strong even as customers digested the rush of wood ordered three weeks ago. As extreme transportation woes continued unabated, sawmills took to quoting on…
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Madison’s Heating Wood Pellet Report: December 2017
The latest issue of Madison’s North America Heating Wood Pellet Report has been emailed to subscribers. Be the first to get this vital and timely information directly into your inbox as soon as it is available! Don’t miss out on the very latest data for Canadian and US sawmill residuals sales, biomass feedstock for energy…
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Japan Wood Product Demand Projection: 1H 2018
The Japan Forestry Agency has held it’s meeting for estimating wood product demand projection for the first half of 2018, said the Japan Lumber Reports Monday. Officials expect a drop in domestic supply of logs to bring an increase in Japan’s log imports from North America in 2Q 2018 and from New Zealand in 1Q.…
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Sticker Shock Restrains Buying but Lumber Prices Remain High
The recent huge burst of buying slacked off this week as lumber futures descended from their up-limit of last week to crash down-limit Monday and trigger a stop-order on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. In the cash market, customers — still reeling from sticker-shock last week — held off on buying unless absolutely desperate for fill-in…
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Forestry Economics Paper : Madison’s co-author
Madison’s is very excited to announce today just this first step in the fabulous range of *new* products and information streams we have coming online in the first half of this year! Parajuli Zhang Kosman_FPE 2018 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934117303209 Province specific impacts of the 2006 United States-Canada Softwood Lumber Agreement: A seemingly unrelated regression approach Based on monthly data from January…
