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After a big lull in sales and steeply falling lumber prices — albeit from unsustainable highs — for the week ending September 10, 2021, sales volumes improved further and with that lumber prices again increased. As often repeated by Madison’s: Labour Day long weekend provides good indication of whether lumber sales will slow to the…

Madison’s Sawmill Listings Lumber Directory: Now Available The integration of Madison’s Sawmill Lumber Listings Directory with Blue Book Services’ Lumber Blue Book directory has been completed and is now available for purchase!

The adoption of the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) in December 2010 changed the landscape of timber imports for the European Union, Australia, and the United States. No longer did these regions import illegally harvested exotic timber from countries on the African continent, and Indonesia, Myanmar, Sarawak, etc. As the EUTR regulations came into use,…

September 3, 2021 — Customers who had been waiting on the sidelines since spring, to see how far down lumber prices would go, returned to the scene and booked significant purchases in the week before the Labour Day long weekend. Sawmills gleefully extended order files as secondary suppliers — who had been running on lean…

August 27, 2021 — Many customers had been waiting on the sidelines over this summer before making their lumber purchases, to see when prices would hit bottom. As it became apparent over the past two weeks that prices were on their way back up, the bulk of the market stepped in to commit to purchases.…