May 2025 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece May is the month you can generally set your watch to being the export price tipping point, and this year is no different. Prices have dropped from the highs of February and March by around $15/m3 to the...
April 2025 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece You couldn’t make this stuff up even if you tried. If you had written a book about a global economic situation such as the current one, it would have been a flop as it would have seemed too farfetched...
March 2025 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece And just like that summers’ over. I’m not sure if time goes faster as you age but it only feels like summer began last month. Maybe it’s because I especially dislike winter. All the firewood you d...
January 2025 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece Another New Year, another hole in the belt, another bunch of ‘get fit’ and ‘sobriety’ resolutions that probably won’t make it past the couch or fridge, and another year of anticipation on what...
December 2024 Market Update
Marcus Musson, Forest360 Director Opinion Piece There won’t be too many people unhappy that we’re about to rule a line under this year, especially those in commodity trades that have ‘survived to ‘25’. Billy Joel could rewrite ‘We didn’...
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...
