Category: Lumber News

  • Madison’s Weekly Lumber Prices Updated

    Disinterested buyers and softening demand sent most dimension lumber and some panel products’ prices down slightly last week. The weak Canadian dollar brought motivated construction framing lumber sellers from Canada into US markets. Volumes sold were stable, if slightly down, over the end of last year. Canadian softwood lumber production, sales, and export VOLUMES January…

  • Canada Lumber Production by Sawmills: Oct 2014

    October 2014 Lumber production by sawmills increased 3 per cent from September to 5,312.7 thousand cubic metres in October, said Statistics Canada Monday. Compared with October 2013, lumber production decreased 0.5 per cent. Sawmills shipped 5,328.5 thousand cubic metres of lumber in October, an increase of 6.2 per cent from September.

  • It’s Getting Crowded in Here. . .

    Your weekly Madison’s Lumber Reporter is bursting at the seams! Over the next few weeks there will be new content added, mostly taken from the data sets we have been working for the quarterly Forest Pulse. (sample download here: http://162.213.156.131/~madisonsreport/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/mclr010915.pdf ) There will be additional pages added to the newsletter make room for this important…

  • North America Transportation : Challenges for 2015

    This week mediators stepped in, “prepared and ready to render prompt assistance” to end a six-month standoff between shippers and dockworkers that has worsened congestion and problems at the Port of Oakland, CA, and across the West Coast of the US. Transportation delays at the ports have occurred largely due to a combination of chassis…

  • U.S. Softwood Lumber Industry Activity : Oct 2014

    Using the latest trade statistics, the Western Wood Products Association found US Softwood Lumber Apparent Consumption for January to October 2014 (at 35.7 billion fbm), up 7.1 per cent over the same time period in 2013. Lumber imports, meanwhile, are up 12.3 per cent. The latest issue of the WWPA’s Lumber Track, out Monday, found…