“Oligopsonistic conditions continue to exist in New Brunswick that contribute to the distortion of the market for private-origin standing timber in the province,” says last month’s U.S.
Lumber prices hit $1,700 US per thousand feet of two-by-four lumber in May 2021, about five times what they were when provincial royalty rates were set in 2015.
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