Seeing the wood for the trees.
What we learn building data platforms for forestry and lumber operators, reconciliation, margin, mill economics and the messy reality of industrial data.
The barrier to AI in the forest supply chain isn't the models. A 69-study review says it's the data.
Sixty-nine studies, seven barriers to adoption, and only one of them is about the models. The remedies the authors propose are both data-integration institutions.
Read the article →Demand for Canadian lumber is recovering. The tariff effect isn't in the numbers yet.
Export value has climbed 13.7% from its March low, on price and volume together. The 21.4% half-year fall still being quoted describes the quarter the market has spent since climbing out of.
Read more →The tariff everyone is quoting is 50%. The one that moves the market is 45%.
The new 50% tariff exempts softwood lumber. The duty softwood already carries is 45.16% all-in, and one producer's filing shows $202m of it in six months.
Read more →Weyerhaeuser's $1bn isn't an AI number. It might also be too small.
The number that travelled around the industry this year is that Weyerhaeuser will add $1bn of annual profit by 2030 using AI. That isn't what the company said.
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