For what seems to be generations now, we have been talking about bioenergy. The threats; the opportunities; the subsidies; the oversupply; the undersupply; the pending legislation; the grandfathered legislation; ROCs, SOX and NOX. "Mr. Fox, Sir, I simply cannot take it anymore! ...
In economics, elasticity is a measure of responsiveness. How does price respond to an increase in demand or an increase in supply? How does demand respond to an increase or decrease in price? Economists use price elasticity to determine how ...
The figure below summarizes pricing data gathered for Forest2Market's weekly lumber market report, Mill2Market. For this market report, Forest2Market aggregates sales order data submitted directly by report subscribers. This figure charts weekly sales order prices from January 2010 through year ...
Housing Market Continues Recovery For the last three years, the housing market has mounted a recovery in spring only to give way to a summer slide and a series of flip-flops through the end of the year. Will this year, with ...
From Forest2Market's Economic Outlook: Industrial production at the total manufacturing level has marched upward at a fairly steady pace since the recession ended in June 2009, and in April it was nearly 20 percent higher than the recessionary trough. Capacity utilization was ...
Last year, a result of El Niño conditions and ill-considered public policy, Texas experienced the most forest fire and drought damage in its State's history; fire destroyed $97 million worth of timber, and as many as 500 million trees were ...
Editor's Note: We just got this press release from Steve McWilliams at the Georgia Forestry Association. (Read our post, Timber Theft on the Rise, for more information about preventing and reporting timber theft.) For immediate release (June 22, 2012) As if ...
