WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University will sponsor a hardwood log, lumber and tree grading workshop on Wednesday and Thursday (March 23 and 24) at the Purdue Davis Farm in Farmland, Ind. The ...

The hardwood industry adds $17 billion to Indiana’s economy. Since 1898, the hardwood lumber industry has relied on the human eye to detect knots and other imperfections as a way of determining the ...

Green or Air-Dried For green, freshly sawn lumber, to be called 4/4, the thicknessin the grading area must be over 1.00 inch; for 5/4, 1.25 inch; for 8/4, 2.00inch.

An overseas hardwood buyer once wrote very frankly to me saying "we buyers, by custom, are always asking for perfection, but we seem to get along very well with something less than that". That ...