Category: Lumber News

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Canada-US Softwood Lumber Discussions

    Ottawa and Washington have begun talks toward renewing a pact regarding the export of Canadian lumber to US markets, Canada’s trade minister, Chrystia Freeland told lawmakers in Ottawa Thursday, said NASDAQ.com. Freeland said Canadian negotiators were in Washington last week to meet with their US counterparts about a new lumber-trade agreement. A spokesperson for the…

  • Canada Trade Outlook: Conference Board

    Canada’s exporters are entering a new era of lower commodity prices and strong demand from a rebounding US economy, but many are not prepared to take ad- vantage of this major shift in trade patterns, says a new report by the Conference Board of Canada study, published Thursday. Among Canadian industries best positioned to capitalize…

  • North America Lumber Production: Nov 2015

    Lumber production in the US totalled 29.4 BBF for the first eleven months of 2015, an increase of 1.4 per cent from 2014 when it was 28.9 BBF, according to the Western Wood Products Association’s Lumber Track, released Wednesday. Canadian lumber production improved by 7.9 per cent for January to November 2015, to 24.5 BBF…