Author: kkosman

As an exciting sneak preview of the upcoming quarterly issue of Madison’s Forest Pulse, the latest data on US lumber exports paints an astonishing picture. Given that Canadian sawmills are being blamed for high lumber prices — in large part due to the current punishing US softwood lumber duties — the stunning increases in US…

Anthony Timberlands, out of Bearden, AR, has contracted to purchase the Watson Sawmill Company hardwood sawmill and chip mill facility in Mount Holly, according to the Magnolia Reporter August 24. The purchase price was not disclosed. The mill employs about 70 people “The Watson mill is a modern, state of the art, facility in all respects,”…

This week the North American softwood lumber market “settled down” (to use that term lightly) from the wild swings of the past couple of months. Supply was carefully assessed as field inventories were well-stocked but also wood kept going out the door. A more accurate sawmill order file than the previous few weeks was pegged…

Sawmills in the United States produced 14.752 billion board feet (bbf) of softwood lumber in the first five months of 2018, a +5.9% increase from output of 13.937 bbf in the same period last year, said the latest Western Wood Products Association Lumber Track report. Western US sawmills accounted for 6.180 bbf to the five-month…

Contracts for new, single-family home sales in the United States declined in July, falling -1.7% to a 627,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate according to estimates from the joint release of HUD and the Census Bureau today. The decline came off an upwardly revised June estimate, which was increased from an initial reading of 631,000 to a new estimate…