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Analyzing the Lumber Market’s Holding Pattern

Analyzing the Lumber Market’s Holding Pattern

Your teams Lumber Purchasing Playbook can call plays based on a safe approach by purchasing lumber now (like kicking a field goal) or a game winning touchdown approach, wait and see what the market will bring (like going for the fourth down). You make the call coach! Keep reading to help determine your teams next play!

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National Forest Products Week

National Forest Products Week

Stay Up to Date on what’s happening in the Lumberyard and in the Wood Industry! Celebrate National Forest Week with us as it is the key to our livelihood and a critical pillar to our economy.

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Lumber Traders Seek Solace: October 2022

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Lumber Traders Seek Solace for Anticipated Year End Results 

Mill Strikes, Doug Fir Production Slows and Anticipated Curtailments are Announced

Weyerhaeuser Workers Strike Winds Down

After six straight weeks of striking, Weyerhaeuser reached a successful resolution of a work stoppage in Oregon and Washington.  Read more here

Doug Fir Production Slows 

Buyers scramble for Doug Fir as supply becomes limited due to a combination of the Weyerhaeuser mills strike and Canadian mills choosing to run Spruce instead of Doug Fir. Low supply results in an upward shift in Doug Fir prices (if you can even acquire any). 

Source: Random Lengths, used here with permission granted by the publisher.