Market Report: Interest Rates and the Wood Products Markets
There are never boring days in wood products markets! Conflicting signals abound and the market is finding scant reasons...
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Market Report: An Apprehensive Market
The general tenor of the marketplace is apprehensive. Macro-economic discussions, such as federal interest rate hikes and the consequent...
Timber Update: A Wet Spring and Busy Summer
The second quarter has come and gone with one of the wettest springs in history, which means an incredible...
Market Report: Interest Rate Increases Impact Engineered Wood Markets
Current macroeconomic news doesn’t give optimists much to be excited about. Interest rate increases, which were intended to tame...
Market Report: Plywood Prices Increase
Plywood sales strengthened considerably over the last two weeks with enough volume sold to move existing inventories and extend...
Freres Wood at the 2022 Mass Timber Conference
The 2022 Mass Timber Conference was a success! We were happy to see everyone in-person again, and to provide...
Market Report: Engineered Wood and Housing Starts
This year, U.S. housing starts are anticipated to be up four percent to 1.67 million starts. Housing permits are...
Timber Update: Salvage Logging, Weather, and Regulations
The Freres Timber Department has come out of the gates at full speed through the short days and seemingly...
Market Report: Oriented Strand Board vs. Plywood
Oriented Strand Board (OSB) prices have been consistently above plywood prices the last couple of weeks. This seems like...
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