Canadian Softwood Lumber Production and Shipment Data for August

On Monday, Statistics Canada (StatCan) reported that Canadian softwood lumber production in August increased 2.5% from July to 3,772.6 thousand cubic meters. Year-over-year, production was down 9.9%.

Canadian sawmills shipped 3,835.1 thousand cubic meters of lumber in August. That is down 0.8% month-over-month and down 2.1% year-over-year.