The November 2015 announced merger of Plum Creek (PCL) and Weyerhaeuser (WY), the two largest public timberland-owning real estate investment trusts...
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Each quarter, when updating the Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) forecast models, our team goes through an exercise that combines spring-cleaning...
During the first half of 2015, Amanda Lang led a project for the Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ) that analysed global pellet demand and the...
Home construction drives baseline wood demand in the United States. Without demand for wood and forest products, timber and timberland values...
As I was riding around looking at property one day, something jumped out at me! Given the fact that I sell a lot of timberland in west central...
The old joke, “Why did the sawmill owner sell his mill? Because he was board,” does not apply to hardwood lumber operations.
For the last decade, EU foreign policy has created a major demand for wood pellets in Europe, and in recent years the U.S. has emerged as the world’s...
Anytime we look to predict the outcome of a Super Bowl in football or World Series in baseball, we look at history and physical facts. How did teams...
In the timber industry, we care about housing starts because increased home building leads to growing demand for lumber and other building products...
I have had the opportunity over the past several years to visit a few classic Southern plantations. With a suburban Chicago upbringing, I had not...