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United SteelWorkers Issue Strike Notice to Northern British Columbia Sawmills
A strike would impact Tolko operations in both Quesnel and Williams Lake, as well as the West Fraser planer operation in the Lake City, Dunkley Lumber and other operations in Prince George, Houston, Burns Lake, Fort St. James, Mackenzie and Fort St. John, according to My Cariboo Now Wednesday. The union representing roughly 2,000 forestry…
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British Columbia Coastal Log Prices, Monthly: 2013 to August 2018
The next issue of the fabulous Madison’s BC Coast Log Prices, including August log price data, was released Friday. This is not BC government data, this is real logs sold at the Vancouver Log Market (see tech details here: https://madisonsreport.com/2018/09/27/british-columbia-coast-log-prices-august-2018-preview/). These are market prices, they are transaction-based. This is a brand-new data set which which…
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Current Softwood Lumber Prices Compared to Recent and Historical Highs
North America softwood lumber prices took quite a tumble again last week as customers bought leanly and negotiated hard, and producers claimed sawmill order files have stretched out to two weeks. Some operators in the East were able to nail down a solid price floor. As forest industry activity and sawmilling in Canada and the…
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North America Softwood Lumber Prices: October 1, 2018
Here are screenshots of the fabulous new Madison’s Lumber Prices via Forest2Market‘s SilvaStat360, updated Friday for this weeks North America softwood lumber and panel prices: If you toggle the notepad at the top right of each softwood lumber commodity group box, you can see the softwood lumber market commentary for those items: Current readers are…
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British Columbia Coast Log Prices: August 2018 *preview*
We at Madison’s are today completing the next fabulous issue of our *NEW* product: British Columbia Coast Log Prices, updated with August log price data. Don’t miss out! Call or email us today to order your subscription to this vital and timely monthly information. Here is a graph of log price trend vs lumber prices…