Tag: RealEstate

Wood pellets and wood chips are the dominant fuels, with preference regionally specific. The September 2017 issue of the Madison’s Heating Wood Pellet price report provided detailed information from a Natural Resources Canada / Torchlight Bioresources study on bioheat projects in Canada. This report was recently updated by Natural Resources Canada, exploring the growth of…

Sharply increased homebuilding activity is being supported by lean inventories, especially for previously owned homes. As true winter weather came on across the continent, total residential starts in the US for January 2021 fell by -6% to a 1.58 million annualized rate. Permits for future homebuilding soared again, this time by +10.4% to a rate…

In the first week of February sawmills were taking orders that would not even go on the production line until the beginning of March. This provides good indication that prices are not going to go down anytime soon. Confusion continued in many quarters as both suppliers and consumers of North America construction framing dimension softwood…

Madison’s Lumber Prices vs Softwood Lumber Production & Sawmill Capacity Utilization Rates Canadian and US softwood lumber production volumes and sawmill capacity utilization rates for October 2020 (provided by the Western Wood Products Association at wwpa.org ) against Madison’s Lumber Reporter‘s dimension softwood lumber prices.

For the week ending Feb 6, total U.S. weekly rail traffic was 495,815 carloads and intermodal units, up +2.2% compared with the same week last year. For the first five weeks of 2021, U.S. railroads reported cumulative volume of 1,156,696 carloads, down -2.2% from the same point last year; and 1,442,642 intermodal units, up +11%…