Madison's Lumber Reporter

09/25/2026

The Madison’s Lumber Prices Index for the week ending Sept 25, 2026 is: US$505 mfbm

This is down -2%, or -$9, from the previous week when it was US$514.
This is down -3%, or -$13, from one month ago when it was US$518.

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09/18/2026

The Madison’s Lumber Prices Index for the week ending Sept 18, 2026 is: US$514 mfbm

This is down -2%, or -$11, from the previous week when it was US$525.
This is down -1%, or -$7, from one month ago when it was US$521.

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09/16/2026

Turning Point for Lumber Sales at Labour Day 2026

While prices did not make much movement, the state of the North American construction framing dimension softwood lumber market leading up to Labour Day demonstrated a quiet strength.

In the week ending September 04, 2026 the price of Western Spruce-Pine-Fir 2x4 #2&Btr KD (RL) was US$470 mfbm, which was down -$5, or -1% from the previous week when it was $475, said weekly forest products industry price guide newsletter Madison’s Lumber Reporter.
That week’s price was down -$20, or -4%, from one month ago when it was $490.

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KEY TAKE-AWAYS:
• Lean field inventories continued to support an uneasy truce between supply and demand.
• Players were adamant the market could turn on a dime if half-decent autumn demand materializes.
• Significant variations appeared between US Western-SPF suppliers, regions, and origin-destination pairings.
• In Canada, prices on key Western-SPF 2x4 dimension items wavered around the previous week’s levels.
• According to Eastern-SPF suppliers, the Toronto region was a basket case while the Great Lakes market was flat.
• Plenty of distributors in the NorthEast deeply discounted items to keep unwanted stock moving.
• Prices of Southern Yellow Pine narrows continued to lead the way back up after precipitously dropping during summer.
• On the US Eastern seaboard, inventory holders showed varying levels of urgency to move material.

FULL STORY: https://madisonsreport.com/turning-point-for-lumber-sales-at-labour-day-2026/

09/11/2026

The Madison’s Lumber Prices Index for the week ending Sept 11, 2026 is: US$525 mfbm

This is up +1%, or +$7, from the previous week when it was US$518.
This is down -1%, or -$5, from one month ago when it was US$530.

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09/09/2026

Last Summer Vacations Ahead of Labour Day Stall Lumber Trading

Even as, in advance of Labour Day, the North America construction framing dimension softwood lumber market was in the usual snoozy mode, the price of benchmark lumber commodity item Western S-P-F 2x4 crested higher than the same week last year. And landed quite a bit above the same time in 2024.

In the week ending August 28, 2026, the price of benchmark softwood lumber item Western Spruce-Pine-Fir 2x4 #2&Btr KD (RL) was US$475 mfbm. This was down -$5, or -1%, from the previous week.

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KEY TAKE-AWAYS:
• Western-SPF players in the US were more interested in taking the symbolic last weeks of summer to vacation rather than sit at a desk.
• Trading activity unsurprisingly sputtered as distractions abounded ahead of the upcoming Labour Day weekend holiday.
• Prices of Western-SPF in Canada continued its sideways-to-down drift as summer holidays again took precedence over slow business.
• Scores of Eastern-SPF buyers staying out of the fray while a smaller cohort opportunistically sniped discounted orders where they could be found.
• Higher-priced Euro wood was arriving into a much softer market, so the next 30-45 days will be interesting.
• Southern Yellow Pine sawmills did a good job over the past few weeks cleaning up accumulations of certain items.
• Alternating hot and stormy weather in the US northeast was not expected to break until around mid-September, which kept construction activity there low.

FULL STORY: https://madisonsreport.com/last-summer-vacations-ahead-of-labour-day-stall-lumber-trading/

09/04/2026

The Madison’s Lumber Prices Index for the week ending Sept 04, 2026 is: US$518 mfbm

This is down -1%, or -$3, from the previous week when it was US$518.
This is down -3%, or -$18, from one month ago when it was US$536.

This is up +9%, or +$41, from the same week last year when it was US$477.

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09/03/2026

Deep dive into latest softwood lumber prices and market update for the beginning of September 2026.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4xakty0Tko

KEY TAKE-AWAYS:
• Western-SPF players in the US were more interested in taking the symbolic last weeks of summer to vacation rather than sit at a desk.
• Trading activity unsurprisingly sputtered as distractions abounded ahead of the upcoming Labour Day weekend holiday.
• Prices of Western-SPF in Canada continued its sideways-to-down drift as summer holidays again took precedence over slow business.
• Scores of Eastern-SPF buyers staying out of the fray while a smaller cohort opportunistically sniped discounted orders where they could be found.
• Higher-priced Euro wood was arriving into a much softer market, so the next 30-45 days will be interesting.
• Southern Yellow Pine sawmills did a good job over the past few weeks cleaning up accumulations of certain items.
• Alternating hot and stormy weather in the US northeast was not expected to break until around mid-September, which kept construction activity there low.

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https://youtu.be/r4xakty0TkoDeep dive into latest softwood lumber ...

09/02/2026

Inexorable Slide of Lumber Prices Continued in August

As the last of summer slow-down time for the North America construction framing softwood lumber industry passed by, many solid wood commodity prices slid down a bit further.

In the week ending August 21, 2026 the price of Western Spruce-Pine-Fir 2x4 #2&Btr KD (RL) was US$480 mfbm, which was down -$10, or -2% from the previous week when it was $490, said weekly forest products industry price guide newsletter Madison’s Lumber Reporter.
That week’s price was down -$25, or -5%, from one month ago when it was $505.

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KEY TAKE-AWAYS:
• Lower cash numbers on key dimension softwood lumber items confirmed negative price movement in lumber futures from previous weeks.
• It looked like the North American construction framing lumber market was building up to a riveting Autumn.
• Sellers of Western-SPF in the US continued to assert that the market had less downside left than perhaps purchasers hoped.
• Sales of Western-SPF in Canada experienced the typical late summer slowdown in the back half of August.
• Tight overall supply reduced the speed of this latest price correction downward.
• There was a surge of Eastern-SPF buying later in the week that buoyed the spirits of wary suppliers in that region.
• Producers in the Northeast extended sawmill order files by one or two weeks, carrying them through to September.
• After multiple weeks of downward sliding Southern Yellow Pine prices continued to flounder.

FULL STORY: https://madisonsreport.com/inexorable-slide-of-lumber-prices-continued-in-august/

08/28/2026

The Madison’s Lumber Prices Index for the week ending August 28, 2026 is: US$521 mfbm

This is down -2%, or -$9, from the previous week when it was US$530.
This is down -7%, or -$37, from one month ago when it was US$558.

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08/26/2026

Softer Lumber Prices in Mid-August Despite Tight Supply

The trend line for benchmark softwood lumber commodity item Western S-P-F 2x4 has been quite stable this year, from the lowest price of US$426 mfbm right at the beginning of 2026, to a high of $516 during July.

In the week ending August 14, 2026 the price of Western Spruce-Pine-Fir 2x4 #2&Btr KD (RL) was US$490 mfbm, which was down -$26, or -5% from the previous week when it was $516, said weekly forest products industry price guide newsletter Madison’s Lumber Reporter.
That week’s price was down -$15, or -4%, from one month ago when it was $505.

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KEY TAKE-AWAYS:
• Western-SPF traders in the United States watched buyers retreat to the sidelines.
• Following the typical late-summer trend, Western-SPF demand in Canada continued to wane.
• The penchant among buyers to hold perilously thin inventories while surviving on hand-to-mouth orders continued.
• Retail customers and other buyers of Eastern-SPF disappeared in the usual late-summer slumber.
• The lack of Euro wood in Eastern US ports through June and July was pronounced.
• The Eastern zone of Southern Yellow Pine was in price discovery mode as mills scrambled to find tradable numbers.
• Eastern Stocking Wholesalers at the ports in New Jersey had a breather as demand took a nap.
• All players were extremely interested to see where the market lands after Labour Day.

FULL STORY: https://madisonsreport.com/softer-lumber-prices-in-mid-august-despite-tight-supply/