Hardwood lumber prices continued to rebound from July lows this past week.  The Kiln-Dried Index increased $3 from last week to $1019/thousand board feet.  The KD Index is 12.14% below where it was at the same time last year.  The Green Index increased...

In the 11/27 issue: A high level overview of 2009 U.S. hardwood export data leaves a rather unsightly impression. Hardwood lumber exports totaled 566 million board feet (MMBF) during the first nine months of 2009, a 26% drop from the same period...

The Railway Tie Association's crosstie purchase report shows purchases fell 30% in October compared to September, and were 30% below October 2008.  Production only fell 9% leaving crosstie markets oversupplied. Year-to-date production has...

This is a sample of our market comments from the 11/20 issue. A handful of sawmills with growing log supplies increased operating hours over the last month, but they were exceptions to the general rule of lower log supplies and declining green...

The findings of our 2009 Hardwood Industry 3rd-party Certification Survey were unveiled today at the 2nd Annual Dollars & Sense of Going Green conference in Schaumberg, IL.  An abreviated set of our survey findings about chain-of-custody certification...