The price of sawdust

Sawdust Prices Soar As Supply Dwindles With Housing Downturn.

“From Maine to Oregon, the price of sawdust, along with other wood byproducts, has soared. When they can find it, sawdust buyers - dairy farmers, particleboard makers and others - are paying up to $50/ton or more, double what they paid a year ago, some say…

In Q1’08, U.S. sawmills have been shipping about 114 million board feet of lumber per day, said Henry Spelter, an economist with the U.S. Forest Service forest products laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin.

That's down from 135 million-bf/day in Q1’07, and 160 million board feet in 2006.” (Canadian Press, Apr. 2nd)