August 2026 Market Update

Q3 Market Update, Marcus Musson, COO Opinion Piece August, the peak of the ski season and last month in our winter. There is a lure that spring is only just around the bend as lambs start emerging in paddocks and daffodils pop up all over the place. ...

July 2026 Market Update

Q3 Market Update, Marcus Musson, COO Opinion Piece With the depths of winter upon us, we are starting to see softening oil prices and reduced export related costs giving a flicker of light at the end of the tunnel. Let’s hope that light is not a t...

June 2026 Market Update

Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Winter – not the most enjoyable season for most, especially those in the forest industry. While many would agree that temperatures and rainfall would have you think we are still in mid-Autumn, winter is still winte...

March 2026 Market Update

Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Autumn, the season with one foot in summer and the other in winter. Unfortunately, most NZ’rs feel that the 2025/26 summer also had a foot (or maybe a foot and a half) in winter with plenty of rainfall and below av...

February 2026 Market Update

Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director February 2026 Market Update February, the shortest month of the year and the last and generally hottest month of summer. It’s also the month the Chinese celebrate their New Year with the longest holiday in the manu...

December 2025 Market Update

Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director December 2025 Market Update With 2025 almost put to bed it’s time to start contemplating what next year might look like in our market space. This year has been the most stable in terms of price that we have seen si...

November 2025 Market Update

Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director November 2025 Market Update November, the month of Mo-vember in NZ, Thanksgiving in the US and world vegan month. It is the month that those of us in the southern hemisphere start to get excited with some decent weat...

August 2025 Market Update

Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece It’s that time of year when the lambs start appearing, the days start stretching out and you get a sense of hope that summers around the corner and things will begin to dry out. Depending on which par...

July 2025 Market Update

Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece The law of averages is rarely wrong, especially when it comes to rain. If you’ve had a nice dry summer and autumn, you can generally brace yourself for a good old-fashioned whopping at some point duri...

June 2025 Market Update

Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece Winter, it’s not the favored season in the forestry calendar, good for planting trees but just plain awful if you’re converting trees into logs. Having said that, June has given us the highest expor...