Category: Lumber News

  • Early Wildfire Warnings, Canada and US

    Unusually dry weather in the north and west of the North American continent this season lead to a dauntingly early fire season. Jurisdictions and municipalities in British Columbia, Alberta, and the entire western United States have already issued fire warnings and restrictions this week. In addition, some amount of wildfires continue to burn in several…

  • UGA Center for Forest Business Timberland Conference 2015

    At the end of February the University of Georgia Center for Forest Business held its prestigious timberland investment conference on Amelia Island, FL, which happens every two years. Subject matter and attendance ranged from timber and lumber finance to tree breeding, from appraisers of all kinds to land investors, and everything in between. Timber-growing regions…

  • Madison’s Weekly Construction Framing Lumber Prices Update: March 6 ’15

    KD Fir Ordeal Dry fir traders observed another indeterminate week, as they waited for some constancy to appear in this wonky market. Pricing was a day-to-day, producer-to-producer affair. Even though demand in many key regions was nonexistent, mills will likely continue to produce more than necessary simply because logs are cheap and readily available. Following…

  • Global Pulp Market Update

    Mark Wilde, formerly of Deutsche Bank, now Packaging & Forest Products Analyst at BMO Capital Markets, this week held a conference call on the global pulp market with fuest speaker Brian McClay, principal at Brian McClay & Associates out of Montreal, QC. This week Mark Wilde, formerly of Deutsche Bank, now Packaging & Forest Products…

  • Madison’s Weekly Construction Framing Lumber Prices Update: Feb 27 ’15

    check it out . . . http://162.213.156.131/~madisonsreport/lumber-prices/ also check out . . . http://162.213.156.131/~madisonsreport/lumber-prices/lumber-price-graphs/