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Author: Madison’s Lumber Reporter

  • Drop in Oregon Timber Harvest: 2015

    Oregon’s timber harvest dropped 8 per cent last year, said OPB News July 25. Before the great recession, Oregon was producing about 4 billion board feet of lumber a year. That dropped after the recession as people stopped building houses. But it’s been climbing and for the last few years it’s been above 4 billion…

  • REO Inventory, US: 2Q 2016

    Freddie Mac reported this week the amount of Real Estate Owned s (REO) inventory declined to 13,284 at the end of 2Q 2106 compared to 19,484 at the end of Q2 2015. For Freddie, this is down 82 per cent from the 74,897 peak number of REOs in 3Q 2010. For Freddie, this is the…

  • Forest Products Association of Canada Announces…

    The Forest Products Association of Canada this week announced an excit– ing new online tool (thegreenestworkforce.ca), which is free for both employment seekers and employers. It will support those looking for work in the forest sector. It will also provide advanced labour market information that can be used to help forestry companies with their recruitment…

  • US Private Residential Construction Spending: June 2016

    The National Association of Home Builders analysis of Census Construction Spending data released Monday shows that total private residential construction spending for June registered a seasonally adjusted rate of US$445.8 billion, virtually unchanged from the May downwardly revised estimate. Private nonresidential construction spending fell for a third consecutive month in June, down by 1.3 per…

  • Canada Sawmill Production: May 2016

    Lumber production in May by sawmills in Canada decreased 2 per cent from April to 5,763.4 thousand cubic metres, said Statistics Canada Tuesday. Compared with May 2015, lumber production rose 8.2 per cent. Sawmills shipped 5,787.6 thousand cubic metres of lumber in May, up 2.4 per cent from April. Shipments rose 6 per cent compared…