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  • Get Accurate Data for Your Forestry Investment Needs Every Week …

    THE PLOT THICKENS …. both publications competitive to Madison’s Lumber Reporter have now adjusted their Western Spruce Pine Fir KD 2×4 R/L dimension framing construction softwood lumber prices to match what we said all along. Continue below to read more: Nothing beats the value of accurate data …. don’t go with the wrong guys, go…

  • US Housing Starts, Construction Permits: March 2018

    An encouraging headline Wednesday by NAHB Eye on Housing, “Most US States Record YTD Single-Family Permits Growth in February 2018” provides only more evidence that US home building and real estate business have come roaring back since the US housing starts crash of September 2006. Over the first two months of 2018, the total number…

  • US Home Building and Selling Improves Further as Softwood Lumber Prices Continue Rising

    In it’s quarterly report the US Census Bureau’s quarterly Survey of Construction detailed that over the first two months of 2018, the total number of single-family permits issued nationwide reached 123,871. On a year-over-year basis, this is an +11.2% increase over the February 2017 level of 111,356 single-family permits. The results from the SOC are…

  • Full Year 2017 North America Forest Industry Data Out Now

    Just last week the US Census, Statistics Canada, and Industry Canada have updated data for Canadian and US lumber and log sales and export, and Canadian softwood lumber production and sales. Most of the insight to emerge from this latest data is as expected, but one thing which seems to have slipped past most observers…

  • Get Accurate Data for Your Forestry Investment Needs Every Week

    Nothing beats the value of accurate data …. don’t go with the wrong guys, go with the right guys. Madison’s Lumber Reporter is the only source PROVEN to be completely unbiased and uninfluenced when printing North American softwood lumber and construction panel solid wood prices. Madison’s has been publishing quality news and price information about Canadian…