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New Software Tools for Sawmill Efficiency Analysis

PRINCETON, W.Va.— Across the country, sawmills are finding it harder to operate under the constant financial squeeze between operating costs and lumber values. In these challenging times, it is critical that mill owners and managers have easy access to information about sawmill operating costs as well as detailed information about key operational factors such as the break-even costs of logs. Now a group of researchers and computer scientists at the U.S. Forest Service Northern Research Station has developed two software tools that can help.