A logger in California complains that the lumber marker is way down except for
exports to Asia. He can only sell whole logs for export as local mills don't
process metric-dimensioned lumber, and that is hurting his business:
http://agalert.com/fromthefields/?id=3836
"But we do send logs to the export markets in the Pacific Rim. That has helped
push up log prices, although it would be better if we had an export lumber mill
and had the capacity to process the logs that we're not exporting. An export
mill processes dimensional lumber using the metric system.
Our mills up here on the North Coast use English measure when processing logs.
British Columbia and Washington state process for the export market, but we
haven't been able to do that."
