NAICS 113210Canadian industry · 6-digitregional market

Forest nurseries and gathering of forest products

SoftwareForestry & Timber Harvest Management Software 113

This Canadian industry comprises establishments with two different production processes, those primarily engaged in growing trees for the purpose of reforestation, and those primarily engaged in gathering forest products. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 129
Under 10 employeesA: 71%
Establishments · USA: 184
Employment · USA: 983
Payroll · USA: $52M

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–47256%

5–92016%

10–1986%

20–492116%

50–9965%

100–19922%

200–4990—

500+0—

Of 129 Canadian establishments with employees, 71% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.

Where they areA

Quebec4434%

British Columbia3729%

Ontario1814%

New Brunswick97%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting, US · opened 2020

88%

1 year

71.7%

3 years

61.8%

5 years

53%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 113, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

regional competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 113 Forestry and logging

Tenure is held by a few licensees and the logging is contracted out, so contractors carry the iron and the weather while the mill sets the rate.

Who sets the price: Mills and licensees, through tender and stumpage.
The software it runs on: Harvest planning, log scaling, fleet and compliance reporting.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Screened one level up. Nothing is filed at this exact code; the screen for 1132 Forest nurseries and gathering of forest products covers it.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 1132

Reforestation Seedling NurseryOne thing must be true

binding constraint: growth quality

The pre-screen called this low-capital and under-served, and the first half survives: a container nursery is greenhouses, a cold store and seasonal labour, not a mill. The second half does not. Seedling demand is a legal by-product of logging. In British Columbia tenure holders are required by law to regenerate the areas they harvest [A], so a nursery's order book is next year's cutblocks, sown a season or more ahead under contract to the same licensees who are curtailing mills. That book is shrinking. The province planted more than 280 million trees in 2024 [A]; planting is expected to fall to 238 million in 2025 and 226 million in 2026, a third consecutive decline that tracks the drop in harvest [B]. The obvious replacement demand — burned forest — has no payer: the nursery associations put replanting 15% of the 2023–24 burn at more than 880 million extra seedlings in British Columbia alone, capacity that does not exist and that waits on government funding [B]. Meanwhile one operator, PRT, grows over 600 million seedlings a year across 28 nurseries [B], against a Canadian industry the trade association puts at about C$256M. The 129 establishments are unusually top-heavy for a farm code — 22% have twenty or more employees. An entrant would be adding capacity to a shrinking, contract-bound volume already served at scale. Gathering of wild forest products, the other half of this code, was not examined.

NAICS 11325 vendors named10 sourced figuresOpen →

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

Sold across the wider branch

Vertical softwareScreenedfiled at 113 Forestry and logging

Forestry & Timber Harvest Management SoftwareOne thing must be true

binding constraint: market size

Incumbent Trimble Forestry (Connected Forest, LIM) and Remsoft (Canadian — Fredericton NB)

Industrial forest management in North America is a few hundred organisations — licensees, TIMOs and provincial agencies — and each already runs a planning system bought once a decade. Below them the buyer is a logging contractor with a truck and a phone. Remsoft and Trimble have split the reachable half and neither is under pressure. Nothing is disclosed here. Every vendor named on this record is private, or sits inside a parent that does not break the line out, so no revenue floor can be built and the market size is genuinely unknown rather than estimated.

NAICS 1133 vendors namedOpen →

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Who works here

The occupations employed in Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

Managers in agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture One industry 93.1%

Fishing vessel masters and fishermen/women One industry 92.4%

Workers in agriculture and fishing occupations One industry 88.9%

Agriculture, horticulture and harvesting labourers and related occupations One industry 85.4%

Logging machinery operators One industry 81.9%

Logging and forestry workers Mostly one sector 61.5%

Contractors and supervisors, agriculture, horticulture and related operations and services Mostly one sector 16.3%

Managers in natural resources production and fishing Mostly one sector 12.5%

Logging, forestry, landscaping and other related labourers Mostly one sector 6.5%

Tourism and amusement services occupations Mostly one sector 6.2%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Other technical trades Across the economy 14.2%

Accounting, insurance and related business administrative occupations Across the economy 3%

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 1.6%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 1.5%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 1.4%

Office administrative assistants - general, legal and medical Across the economy 1.1%

Administrative, property and payroll officers Across the economy 1%

Shoe repairers, shoemakers and upholsterers Across the economy 1%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. But note the shape of this industry: 71% of establishments have fewer than ten employees, and at that size most of these roles are one person wearing several hats, or bought in from outside.

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