

Toward Top Quartile: Southern Pine Labor Data Insights
by Bryan Beck, President, The Beck Group Consulting Southern Pine Economics Series Blog #1 We at Beck recently added some new...
Aug 12, 2024


Times are tough. Could your mill be performing better?
by Steve Courtney, Vice President, The Beck Group Many mills have been manufacturing wood products for decades. Some have changed company...
Jul 17, 2024


Maintenance: A Pathway to Forest Products Profit
by John K. Kelley and team. All timber products manufacturing in the modern world involves equipment, machinery, vehicles, and the people...
Jun 10, 2024


Return To Log: What Wood Products Manufacturing Process Generates the Highest RTL Values?
Authors: Roy Anderson, Steve Courtney, John K Kelley Return To Log, or RTL, is an analytical tool for assessing how much economic value a...
Apr 29, 2024


Wood Chip Demand Fell Off a Cliff: What Now?
By John K. Kelley, Steve Courtney, and Roy Anderson The Pacific Northwest forest products industry’s economic performance sometimes...
Jan 31, 2024


US Forest Service Grants—what are they, and how can one obtain them?
by John Kelley The United States Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, manages 193,000,000 acres of land—an...
Oct 23, 2023