Brian Hardin has a conversation with Brian Whitley, acting director of the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS).

 Here are some useful links from that conversation:

1. Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) Reports: Insight and analysis from FAS’s overseas offices on issues affecting agricultural production and trade.
2. Production Supply and Demand Database: Data on production, supply, and distribution of agricultural commodities for the U.S. and key producing and consuming countries.
3. Global Agricultural Trade System: International agricultural, fish, forest, and textile products trade statistics dating from the inception of the Harmonized coding system in 1989 to present. 
4. Export Sales Query System:  Information on U.S. export sales, by commodity and country of destination, updated weekly.

In the wrap-up, William Green gives us some useful information about the condition of lumber supply and demand from the Auburn University School of Forestry.