Southern Yellow Pine

Understand how fluctuations in housing starts, renovations and other construction-related activities impact Southern Yellow Pine (SYP) prices

Understanding Southern Yellow Pine and lumber futures

Fastmarkets (owner of Random Lengths) offers daily price data and regular analysis on Southern Yellow Pine (SYP), a key commodity that plays a crucial role in the construction and lumber industries. 

Fastmarkets is the PRA for ​​the CME Group​​ cash-settled ​​lumber​ futures contract​. To learn more about the new lumber contract, which leverages Fastmarkets’ trusted Random Lengths Southern Yellow Pine #2&Btr 2×4 (eastside) daily price, read our press release.

As SYP continues to grow and capture market share, staying informed is crucial for adapting to industry changes. Here’s how we can help:

  • Stay ahead of the curve: Our market-reflective price data empowers you to make informed business decisions
  • Daily insights: Access daily price data for SYP and market analysis to ensure transparency and clarity in the market
  • Global significance: SYP is the most commonly shipped North American species in the European Union, with growing potential in North Africa, the Middle East, and East Asia

As the construction and housing markets evolve remaining vigilant and adapting strategies based on market conditions will remain crucial.

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Why the industry trusts Fastmarkets’ SYP prices
  • Transparent practices: We publish all methodologies and price specifications. Our pricing is IOSCO-compliant, unbiased and consistent 
  • Global expertise: With leading price reporting teams and global offices, we provide deep market insights and stay on top of trends 
  • Benchmark status: Our price benchmarks in softwood and hardwood lumber give us an edge in the pallet industry
How Fastmarkets wood products data can help you
  • Transparent, market-reflective pricing and news to manage risks, spot opportunities and fine-tune strategies
  • Metro-level analytics for over 30 US regions, tailored to key markets including single-family and multi-family homes
  • Long-term forecasts (5-15 years) backed by 50 years of historical data for solid future planning.
  • Short-term market analysis for a 1-2 year outlook to navigate immediate market shifts.
  • Cost and performance benchmarks across 4,500 companies and 16,500 projects in the wood products sector.
What’s happening in the wood products market?

Our subscribers have access to regular news and analysis covering home sales, interest rates, mergers and acquisitions, government and public policy and issues impacting mill production levels. Here’s just a small selection of the news and analysis our experts produce.

Paracel’s current 103,000 hectares (ha) of eucalyptus plantations are sufficient for the start-up of the company’s planned new greenfield mill in Paraguay by 2027, chief executive officer Flavio Deganutti confirmed to Fastmarkets in an exclusive interview. Paracel has continued to make progress in its project to build a new 1.8-million-tonne-per-year bleached eucalyptus kraft (BEK) pulp […]

What is the outlook for key raw materials in the construction industry in 2024, including steel, scrap, aluminium and lumber?

Price volatility in the Southern Pine lumber market eased markedly in 2023 from the pandemic-infused chaos evident in the three previous years. While most traders welcomed that trend, many lamented that the reduced volatility failed to make the market’s near-term shifts any easier to gauge. In fact, many veteran traders noted that coming trends were […]

Another year is behind us, with no shortage of discussion topics when reflecting on the US residential construction and wood products markets in 2023. In many ways, the year played out how our team expected as we laid out in last year’s “Predictions” piece. Here is how our predictions played out throughout 2023: Want to […]

On Wednesday December 20, Brazil’s largest packaging paper producer, Klabin, announced that it had purchased forest assets from Arauco for $1.16 billion.  The deal covers a total of 150,000 hectares, concentrated in Paraná state in southern Brazil, including 85,000 ha of pine and bleached eucalyptus kraft (BEK) plantations, along with 31.50 million tonnes of standing […]

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