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Canada State of the Forests 2015
For a quarter century the Government of Canada has been using The State of Canada’s Forests report to chronicle Canada’s progress toward sustainable forest management. Canada State of the Forest 2015 Report Canada Forest Cover Canada has 348 million hectares of forest land. This represents 9 per cent of the world’s forests and 24 per…
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Canadian Sawmill Exports, Sawmill Manufacturing Sales Full-Year 2015
New forest industry data out today from Statistics Canada and Industry Canada: Canada’s Total Exports for Sawmills (except Shingle and Shake Mills) To All Countries full year 2015, were up 3.5 per cent to $9,142 million, from $8,836 million the year earlier, said Statistics Canada today (Feb 24, 2016). Canadian Sawmill exports to US were…
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North America Transportation Volumes Update
The Association of American Railroads Wednesday reported US rail traffic for the week ending Feb. 13, 2016. For that week, total US weekly rail traffic was 505,148 carloads and intermodal units, down 3.8 per cent compared with the same week last year. US Rail Car Loadings Total carloads for the week ending Feb. 13 were…
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Madison’s Lumber Reporter *sample* issue Feb 19 ’16
Get the View on North American Softwood Lumber Markets A weekly newsletter detailing current US and Canadian softwood lumber and panel prices If you deal regularly, or even just occasionally, with North American softwood lumber products, then you should have Madison’s Lumber Reporter on your desk every week. Madison’s has been publishing quality news and…
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Madison’s Weekly Softwood Lumber Prices: February 22, 2016
MADISON’S KEY SOFTWOOD LUMBER MARKET WEEKLY COMMENT: “Up-limit lumber futures encouraged many buyers to participate this week.” Prices updated February 22, 2016 (click table to enlarge) All prices are net FOB mill in U.S. dollars per 1000 board feet unless otherwise noted. Green = not dried KD = kiln dried PET = precision end trim…
