November 2024 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece Interesting times. Trump’s in, and resoundingly with the senate, electoral college and populist votes. It looks like Elon is going to take the knife to as many government jobs as he can, tariffs will ...
October 2024 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece After what has seemed like an eternity of headwinds, it looks as though we finally have some positive signs from China with October A grade wharf gate prices boosting through the $120/m3 glass ceiling f...
September 2024 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece Spring has sprung, lambs are frolicking, daffodils are blooming, and the feeling of warmer temperatures and better times is hanging heavy in the air. Unfortunately, like the frolicking lambs, logs are s...
August 2024 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece Double dips are great when we’re talking about chocolate dip, chip’n’dip and lotto but not so good when talking export log prices, but here we are. Quarter three kicked off with August prices down...
July 2024 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece ‘Survive to ‘25’ seems to be the new catch phrase around the country, especially in the primary sector. It probably wouldn’t have made a great political campaign slogan, but it does sum up the g...
June 2024 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece Brace yourself folks, we’re entering new territory. June export prices have come out with only a very slight rise on May, which was only a very slight rise on April, so basically flat at the bottom of...
May-2024 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece May’s a funny month, you’re hanging onto the autumn weather and good times that were had over summer, knowing fully well that winter is around the corner, and it’s going to get cold and ugly. This...
April 2024 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece It’s all a bit gloomy really, daylight savings has finished, lambs and logs are worth bugger all, the media has lost its social license, and the economy is in the cart. No matter who you talk to in th...
March 2024 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece History is a great predictor of the future, and the log market is no different. March export prices have been released and it feels as though we’re trying to climb a barbed wire fence, but the problem...
February 2024 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece February has kicked off with a hiss and a roar with log exporters pulling out the pencil sharpeners and publishing prices in the mid to high $130’s for A grade (except for Bluff and Lyttleton where yo...
