wood products
British Columbia’s booming wood-pellet industry threatens old-growth forests
Trump warns Canada, ‘We’re going to take care of our dairy farmers’
At an agricultural roundtable in the White House, President Trump turned up the heat in the U.S.-Canada dairy dispute, saying "we don't want to be taken advantage of by other countries – and that's stopping and stopping fast." At nearly the same time, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told reporters separately that the administration is looking for measures to resume sales of ultra-filtered milk from U.S. farms to Canadian processors.
Global wood production recovers from recession
Wood industries, ranging from pulp and paper mill to saw mills, were among the hardest-hit by the global recession in 2008-09 and finally are recovering, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
Contest aims to prove viability of wooden highrises
Development teams in New York City and Portland, Oregon, each won $1.5 million "to showcase the safe application, practicality and sustainability of a minimum 80-foot structure that uses mass timber, composite wood technologies and innovative building techniques."