Market Watch | Pete Stewart

6 Predictions for 2023 Global Forest Industry

The global forest industry has experienced some serious changes across the past year. As we saw in our 2022 global...

August 31, 2022

Forest Management

Anti-Forestry Insanity: The Opinion Piece That Keeps on Giving

There’s an old adage about the paralyzing effects of cognitive dissonance: The definition of insanity is doing the same...

January 03, 2022

Predictions for the Global Forest Industry in 2022

Much like the previous year, the global forest products industry underwent significant changes in 2021 – some expected,...

May 26, 2021

“Making More Lumber” Is Not So Simple

In 2Q2020, a tremendous supply/demand imbalance emerged in the North American softwood lumber market as a reaction to...

March 17, 2021

Timber Prices

What’s Driving the Disparity Between Log and Lumber Prices?

Southern yellow pine (SYP) lumber prices are at record highs, by huge margins. Forest2Market’s composite SYP lumber...

February 08, 2021

Forest Management

The Forest Industry Should Embrace the Climate Change Conversation

With the benefit of hindsight, modern Americans often look back in horror at the way many of the rapidly expanding...

December 21, 2020

Lumber Market 2020 Year in Review: What’s Next?

It’s been a long, strange year, to be sure. While my annual predictions for the forest industry in 2020 didn’t miss the...

August 18, 2020

Why Are Lumber Prices at Record Highs?

After three consecutive record-breaking weeks, southern yellow pine (SYP) lumber prices once again pressed on to set a...

June 03, 2020

Where Do We Go from Here? A Q&A with Forest2Market CEO Pete Stewart

Forest2Market President & CEO Pete Stewart recently participated in a Q&A that is published in the June issue of The...

March 23, 2020

How the Forest Industry Survives Down Markets, COVID-19 Crisis

Just two months ago, Americans watched cautiously from a distance as the COVID-19 contagion caused a nearly...

March 18, 2020

The Impact of COVID-19 on Our Industries and Markets

We hope that you and your families are staying well during these especially challenging times. We have been closely...

January 06, 2020

10 Predictions for Global Forest Industries in 2020

Global pulp market will soften. Hopes of a US-China trade deal might breathe new life into pulp prices, or they...

January 02, 2019

11 Predictions for Global Wood Consuming Industries in 2019

1. Global pulp market will maintain strength. China will continue to buy more pulp in 2019 as its continued moratorium...

December 10, 2018

Why Have Lumber Prices Fallen?

The US housing sector—a bellwether for economic health—has showed signs of stagnation (and even the prospect of...

November 02, 2018

Housing Market

Housing Start Forecast: What the Next Five Years Really Look Like

Housing start forecasts are overly optimistic, with many in the industry suggesting we'll see 1.6 million housing...

January 25, 2018

Charting the Sinking Dollar and Lumber Trade Flows into 2018

An interesting dynamic in global currencies is taking shape. The DJIA continues to soar, tax cuts are on the horizon...

January 16, 2018