Author: kkosman

  • Madison’s Forest of Products: July 2019

    Madison’s North American Heating Wood Pellet Price Report JUNE 2019 … download latest issue British Columbia Coastal Log Prices, Monthly: 2013 to Present Madison’s British Columbia Coast Log Price Report JUNE 2019 … download latest issue MADISON’S FOREST PULSE … download latest issue Be among the first to use this exciting new data set! Don’t…

  • Madison’s Softwood Lumber Price Dashboard Tool: May 2018

    Madison’s Lumber Prices @LumberNews 20h Check out Madison’s Lumber Reporter dashboard tool, live since May 2018. No guess work, a proven track record: Our subscription prices are clearly posted: https://madisonsreport.com/subscribe/ Madison’s latest weekly lumber price data update: https://madisonsreport.com/lumber-prices/lumber-price-graphs/

  • US Construction Job Openings: May 2019

    US Construction Job Openings Fall Back in May  Data from the BLS Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS) indicate that US construction job openings declined in May off a cycle high count in April, according to the US National Association of Home Builders Tuesday.The estimated number of job openings in the construction sector fell back to…

  • North America Softwood Lumber Production, Sawmill Capacity Utilization, WWPA: April 2019

    The latest issue of the Western Wood Products Association’s monthly Lumber Track, for January-April 2019, shows a +0.9% increase in US softwood lumber production volume, to 11,718 mmfbm. Last month it was +0.4%.January – April softwood lumber production in Canada continued dropping, this time by another -8.8%, to 8,588 mmfbm, compared to the first four…

  • Softwood Lumber Prices Flatline as Supply Balances with Demand

    The closures and curtailments at North American softwood lumber manufacturers earlier this year, almost all at British Columbia sawmills, has achieved it’s intended consequence of improved supply-demand balance. Until that wood production went offline, order files at most sawmills were one week or less, which is incredibly short for the time of year. In recent…