>I'm confident that sustainable pine is being grown anywhere someone thinks they can turn a profit buying the land and then growing pine. After all, MDF and OSB

>I'm confident that sustainable pine is being grown anywhere someone thinks they can turn a profit buying the land and then growing pine. After all, MDF and OSB are originally made from the scraps of these young pine anyway. Sustainably grown pine is hard to grow and mostly comes from the Southern US these days. I urge you to try to grow your own sustainable pine farm if you disagree. I have land with pine on it, so does a colleague of mine It's a really good long term investment. Plant for $10K, harvest 30 years later for $1M+. I mean do you have land, or are you just hypothesizing? I suspect the latter. >That's what I mean: ideology. It's "obvious everywhere you look". The flat-earthers say the same thing, along with the QAnon folks. "Trust your eyes not what the politicians say." These ideologies are seductively simple answers to complex questions. Whenever you dislike the quality of something, it's "chasing profits at the cost of quality." The explanation does not need to contend with different input goods, resource types, markets, or anything. No observations, other than personal dissatisfaction, are needed to make the conclusion stick. If you can't attack the idea, attack the person. It's not my ideology, it's market forces. You haven't show any numbers, just hyperbole. Show me somewhere that the margin on particleboard is less or the same than the margin of hardwood of the same furniture type and it will be more convincing. Companies are motivated by profit, pure and simple. To deny this is to deny understanding of how companies work or their purpose for existence. If they can cut costs, they will. If you think they will never cut costs at the expense of quality, I'm not sure what world you live in. Granted, there are exceptions, but of course they haven't dropped in quality so those aren't the companies I'm talking about. Show me somewhere that the margin on particleboard is less or the same than the margin of hardwood of the same furniture.