Woodland News

Well, congratulations – anyone reading this actually made it through another year! 

The Forest Landowners Association (FLA) is the “only national representative of the economic interests of family forest landowners and their unique natural resource assets.”

With certain exceptions (and there certainly are exceptions), where an individual can only do so much, when working alongside others having a common goal, tremendous accomplishments can be realized.

The G-20 Summit and meeting between President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China has taken place.

I suppose it no surprise that, at FORECON, we really like trees.

We’ve seen an active hardwood market this year, both in terms of ups and downs. 

There are multiple factors, often occurring at the same time, affecting the health and diversity of our timberland forests: from insects and deer, to viral and fungal pathogens, our forests incur and adapt to various biological and environmental stresses.

As we continue to wade through the current trade talks/tariff issues between the US and other nations – particularly China as related to our US hardwood exports, we thought it’d be interesting to show how demand for various hardwood products has changed over the period from 2010 through 2018 (numbers for 2018 have been annualized from mid-year totals).

Well, I guess in some ways we are still “waiting and seeing” how the continuing trade/tariff issues will affect our hardwood logs and lumber markets. 

We’ve seen some definite shifts in demand and consequently value for several of our most popular hardwood species over the last couple of months.