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Lumber Sales Improved as Spring Finally Arrived
True spring weather and ongoing low inventory volumes served to bring enough new demand for lumber prices to increase somewhat. The graphs attached here show a good, stable trend-line over the past two years, with prices ranging approximately $200 between the lowest and the highest points annually. So far in 2026 prices are right in…
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Softwood Lumber Market Update: Mid-Oct 2025 (video)
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Soft Demand, Higher Duties, Summer Vacations Keep Lumber Sales Low
It is usual in the final weeks of August for lumber sales, thus prices, to drop, as the annual seasonal slow-down arrives. Both construction activity and sawmilling normally take some down-time when hot temperatures arrive across North America. This year is no different; as the continent-wide Labour Day long weekend loomed many folks were already…
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Lumber Production and Sawmill Utilization AUG, Lumber Prices, NOV: 2021
North America softwood lumber production volumes and sawmill capacity utilization rates released by Western Wood Products Association (www.wwpa.org) show: For January to August 2021 softwood lumber production in the US improved by +3.3% from the first eight months of 2020. US lumber production volumes were 22,341 mmfbm. Looking at the month of August against July…
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Benchmark Lumber Prices Crest Just Over Levels of One Year Ago
As this unusual year slowly wound toward a close, there were some developments which will only add more confusion and uncertainty to the construction framing solid wood marketplace. One, which is well-known, is the looming increase — to almost double what it has been since November 2020 — of the Softwood Lumber Duty on Canadian…
