In North America, the maple species are divided into two groups: soft maple (which includes red maple, Acer rubrum, silver maple, A. saccharinum, and bigleaf maple, A. macrophyllum) and hard maple ...
Sawmills are delaying hard maple cuts in favor of red oak due to the cold weather across the northern U.S. and Canada, which is prompting a faster price escalation for red oak. Moreover, prohibitively ...