October 17th, 2025.

Updates this week, reminders from last:

· Woodland Pulp, curtailing all deliveries stateside effective October 16th for 10 days.

· Arbec Mill opening October 20 that reduced volume. Arbec will not be purchasing wood until a later date.

· McMillans is now accepting cedar logs, 10 & 12ft,$274.64/cord.

· LP has reduced their hours. LP is open 5 days a week now, from Sunday at 11pm to Friday at 6pm.

· 12th JDI – SNB Board Contract underway, ending December 13th(10-weeks). 

· J.D. Irving mills – new PID zoning system.

· Arbec is closed for deliveries.

If you didn’t see the last update, SNB Marketing Board has created a Facebook page to better inform the private woodlot audience. Follow our page ( Southern New Brunswick Forest Products Marketing Board ) to see immediate updates on mill closures, specs, and more.

McMillans is now accepting cedar logs, 10 & 12ft at a price of $274.64/cord.

Same specs as before, Min 6” top, no seams, crotches, forks, doglegs, shattered butts, and butt flare needs to be trimmed.

Arbec has suspended all deliveries from all producers as of August 29th for a 6-week shutdown. Arbec is hoping to open their mill on October 20th at a reduced volume. The mill will only be running 5 days a week until market conditions improve to which they hope to buy from SNB Producers at a later date, but this is subject to change based on market conditions.

Effective September 1st, AV has decreased the price on poplar pulpwood. Below are the new zone prices on poplar. Birch and maple pulpwood will remain the same price.

Queens County: $63.00/gmt (-$1.40/gmt)

Kings & Saint John County: $63.60/gmt (-$2.00/gmt)

Trucker key cards for the contract are available at the scale house. Ensure that the delivered loads are placed under the “SNB Forest Products Marketing Board Contract”, or “SNB Contract”. 

JD Irving has recently created a new system for zone pricing recognition by PID. An interactive map will soon be available on their site to search your zone pricing by inserting the PID number. Below is the notice that was sent out to producers this week:

“Effective September 28, 2025, we will be implementing a PID validation process as part of our Purchase Wood tally creation process.

This has become necessary due to the EUDR reporting we are now obligated to do. It is important that the PID #’s we are providing with shipments of products we are selling into the European Union countries are valid PID #’s.

Our current Zone Maps were not developed with PID #’s in mind. We have had to update our Maps ensuring Zone boundaries follow PID boundaries. There have also been some road network changes since the last maps were developed.

Starting on September 28th, as loads of Private wood arrive at our scale houses our system will validate that the PID # provided is valid and will assign a Zone to the load at that time. Loads arriving with an invalid PID # will go into error and will not be paid until the correct PID # is provided. In most cases the driver will be advised while at the Scales that the PID # they provided is invalid.

The new Zone Maps (pdf format) are now available on our Purchase Wood Website. We will also be developing a lookup feature so you can enter the PID # and destination mill to be provided the zone that will be applied to any loads from that PID #. I will advise when this is available.

Link to the Maps: https://irvingwoodlands.com/jdi-woodlands-wood-producers-wood-prices-trucking-zone-maps.aspx

These new Zone Maps will be implemented effective September 28th.

Please advise if you will need J D Irving, Limited to provide a printed copy of the Map for the Mills your Marketing Board delivers to.”

JDI has recently implemented a producer contract card system for truckers delivering hardwood pulpwood products at Lake Utopia effective immediately. Truckers will require the correct PID, producer name, zone, producer identification number, and contract to properly register the load.

There are two cards for the SNB Marketing Board contract on the wall at the scale house. If producers are looking for their identification number, they can contact the office, although the number would be displayed on previous load slips to JDI. Producers who have not previously delivered wood will require a new producer number to be created by JDI in order to process the load in the system. Please contact the office prior to shipping to avoid any delays.This system is expected to be implemented to all JDI mills eventually.

JDI has implemented a new zone pricing system for birch hardwood pulp to Lake Utopia. Please note that all deliveries of birch & maple hardwood pulp to Sussex Mill are curtailed effective July 26th.Click here to see it on the website.

LP has reduced their hours. LP is open 5 days a week now, from Sunday at 11pm to Friday at 6pm.

Louisiana Pacific (LP) is purchasing poplar through the SNB Marketing Board. Please note LP is buying both treelength and 8-foot poplar, however, they are delivered to separate locations/yards. Check out the specs and price here.

Woodland Pulp will be curtailing all deliveries to their mill stateside in Maine effective October 16th, for 10 days. This curtailment is to allow time for the confusion around tariffs on roundwood to play out.

Woodland Pulp is purchasing random length softwood pulp (10ft to 16ft) with a minimum top of 3”.There is no fuel surcharge on softwood pulp, only hardwood pulp at this time.

· Zone 2 (50-100 miles) $56.23 imperial ton equates to $61.98/metric tonne.

· Zone 3 (100 miles +) $62.23/imperial ton equates to $68.59/metric tonne.

The 12th SNB Marketing Board – JDI contract is underway. The contract term is 10 weeks, from October 5th – December 13th, 2025. Pricing will remain the same for this contract duration. Producers and owners looking to ship through the Board contract are asked to contact the office for production estimates for the next contract.

The first week of deliveries producers shipped over 2800 gmt of softwood on the contract, 1800 gmt being saw material.

Use “SNB Marketing Board – (producer name)” as the contract number when filling out the TC.

The new European Union Deforestation Regulation came into effect December 2024. JDI has recognized the need to have an individual commitment from those who ship wood to JDI mills. AV Nackawic is also requesting each producer to recognize this new regulation with the most recent contract. If you have questions, please contact the office and ask to speak to Devin.

Producers are asked to sign and date the JDI document and return it to the Marketing Board office at your earliest convenience, before shipping wood from any PID. 

Producers can also stop into the SNB office for a copy to sign there.This formal notification indicates that the producer has had a conversation with the landowner to understand their long-term plans prior to the harvest and ensures that the wood being harvested will not be from a site being converted from forestland to farm or agriculture land. Do note that this document will need to be signed 

If producers have any questions, please call the SNB office. Click the link here to see the document.

Currency conversion rates for US markets will increase to 1.40% for the week of October 20th,2025.

For more information on pricing and specifications, please visit our Market page here. Or contact the office at (506) 433-9877 or 433-9866.