A move by the US Commerce Department to increase preliminary tariffs on softwood lumber imports from Canada, if finalized, will raise producer costs and cut into their profits but is unlikely to affect prices to consumers of wood products, analysts say. Source: Daily Commerical News T

Chinese companies own more than half of the logging concessions in Suriname, South America. Much of the illegal timber is sold online through companies which are hard to track, reported DW News Agency. Source: Yahoo!News Carl Holm in a ground report uncovered the illegal timber busine

Incentives are being offered to landowners in eight municipalities across Tasmania’s north to undertake native tree planting to improve on-farm biodiversity as part of the Australian Government’s Carbon + Biodiversity Pilot. Source: Timberbiz The pilot, developed with the Australian N

New, accurate lower limits for measuring tree height have been established using unmanned aerial vehicles. Height is a good indication of how productive (and healthy) a tree is. Height can be measured from the ground, but this can be expensive and time consuming, especially over large

Hardwood chip exports from Australia lifted to 366 kbdmt (bone dried metric tonnes) in March, the highest volume for 2021, year-to-date. The average export price rose to an eight month high at AUDFob206/bdmt, as the export trade continues to be beset by confidentiality restrictions th

Waratah Forestry Equipment today announced details of a new H423 harvester head designed to carry out a wide range of harvesting jobs from early to late thinnings and even light regeneration harvesting. Source: Timberbiz Waratah says that with outstanding multi-tree-handling qualities

An insect invasion expert from the University of the Sunshine Coast will soon travel to the United States on a Fulbright Future Scholarship to help boost biosecurity between the two countries. Source: Timberbiz Dr Helen Nahrung, from USC’s Forest Research Institute, is the first resea

SA Best has called an emergency summit on 2 June with builders, industry bodies, timber processors and suppliers to discuss the ramifications of the shortage and develop a blueprint. Source: The Advertiser International demand for timber, a lack of imported stock and unprecedented hou

Eligible local Landcare groups, environment networks and community groups working on bushfire recovery projects can now access funding of approximately $50,000 in a landmark new grants program funded by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment. So