by ssbhayani | Mar 1, 2024 | #softwoodlumberbuyer, Business Trends, Industry News, National Hardwood Magazine
Throughout the Northeast region lumber contacts were varied in their response to whether or not the market was doing better than it was six months ago, but they all agreed that, at the time of this writing, their sales are depressed. In Maine, a lumber spokesperson...
by ssbhayani | Mar 1, 2024 | #softwoodlumberbuyer, Business Trends, Industry News, National Hardwood Magazine
Across the Southeast region sources agreed that lumber prices have been better, while varying on their responses as to how much business they had, at the time of this writing. In Mississippi a lumber saleswoman said their markets are slow right now and that they are...
by ssbhayani | Mar 1, 2024 | #softwoodlumberbuyer, Business Trends, Industry News, National Hardwood Magazine
A California lumberman recently noted that business was “adequate” and that he would “take that any day” over the “chaos” that the pandemic created in the lumber market. “It was no fun during the pandemic,” he noted. “We all want to be profitable, but that was insane....
by ssbhayani | Mar 1, 2024 | #softwoodlumberbuyer, Business Trends, Industry News, National Hardwood Magazine
It was a slow start to the new year as customers let their inventories slide over the end of 2023 and placed orders in December for January receipts, which caused a boost in current business by end of January. Most primary and secondary manufacturers did not see a...
by ssbhayani | Mar 1, 2024 | #softwoodlumberbuyer, Business Trends, Industry News, National Hardwood Magazine
Sawmills and concentration yards reported better business early in the new year compared to the period before the holidays. Activity was mostly seen to replenish inventories as opposed to secondary manufacturers increasing their consumption of Hardwoods. However, it...
by ssbhayani | Feb 1, 2024 | #softwoodlumberbuyer, Business Trends, Industry News, National Hardwood Magazine
While lumbermen in the Lake States continued to steadily “move wood” through the fourth quarter of 2023, they agreed that “something must change” in order to hit the ground running in 2024. A Wisconsin source called the 2023 fourth quarter market “steady” but added...