USDA Appoints Six Members To Softwood Lumber
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has appointed six members to serve on the Softwood Lumber Board. The appointees will serve three-year terms beginning Jan. 1, 2025, and ending Dec. 31, 2027.
Newly appointed members are:
-
Trey Hankins, Ripley, Miss. (U.S. South, flex seat/small company)
-
Kimberli C. Scott, Allendale, S.C. (U.S. South, flex seat/small company)
-
Marc Brinkmeyer, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (U.S. West, large company)
-
Vaughn Emmerson, Anderson, Calif. (U.S. West, large company)
-
Susan Yurkovich, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Canada West, large company)
-
Jerome Pelletier, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada (Canada East, flex seat)
The Softwood Lumber Board has 14 members, including 10 domestic manufacturers and four importers. Members can serve up to two consecutive three-year terms.
Latest News
Sun Mountain Lumber To Buy R-Y Timber
According to multiple local news outlets, Sun Mountain Lumber has signed a purchase agreement with R-Y Timber. The two lumber mills are 146 miles from each other. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Sun Mountain Lumber is owned by Sherm Anderson. While his grandson, Christopher Anderson, is the controller of the company…
Georgia-Pacific Holds Pineland Ribbon Cutting
Georgia-Pacific representatives along with local elected officials and many others gathered in mid-June to celebrate the previous-announced major expansion of its Pineland sawmill. Lumber Division President Fritz Mason was on hand to cut the ribbon of the largest sawmill in the southern U.S. after the expansion and improvement…
Caribou Purchases StumpGeek Software
Caribou Software, a forestry software company that services more than 300 timber companies across North America, has announced its acquisition of the StumpGeek forestry software system to extend its product offering to smaller logging contractors and sawmills. “Over the years, we’ve spoken to many, many logging contractors and…
JoeScan Team Expands
Sawmill scanning company JoeScan, founded in 2002, is once again expanding their team with the addition of two new engineers to their roster. “We’ve seen a tremendous amount of growth in terms of sales,” says JoeScan president Joey Nelson. “So we have some additional demand on our engineers to answer support questions. But we also want to continue to develop new…
Find Us On Social
Newsletter
The monthly Timber Processing Industry Newsletter reaches over 4,000 mill owners and supervisors.
Subscribe/Renew
Timber Processing is delivered 10 times per year to subscribers who represent sawmill ownership, management and supervisory personnel and corporate executives. Subscriptions are FREE to qualified individuals.
Advertise
Complete the online form so we can direct you to the appropriate Sales Representative.