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Date:March 21, 2016
Re:RANDOM LENGTHS PRICE GUIDE REVISIONS
scheduled for April 2016
Price guide will no longer track White Pine RWRL
Sales of Idaho White Pine in random width/random length loads were in vogue until the 1980s, but sales in recent years have been, just as in other species, much more specified.
With the next round of price guide changes taking effect with the April 8 issue, Random Lengths will no longer report Idaho White Pine RWRL prices for Sterling, Standard, and Utility grades on Page 7. No other changes to the price guides are planned.
Idaho White Pine in general has been less heavily traded, with only a handful of mills still cutting the species. A heavy share of sales historically shipped to the Northeast, where Eastern White Pine has captured market share. Buying or selling random width loads is foreign to many traders today.
"That's how we always used to do everything in the '80s to get rid of our tallies," one source noted. "We didn't have huge runs, and when you have a smaller run you don't want to be stuck. We would run it and say, 'Here’s the tally.' The distributor would be the bulk breaker and take the credit risk."
Following this article are:
A list of all tags to be added and retired (below)
These appear by page number in the printed Random Lengths Price Guides.
Special Note to database and spreadsheet subscribers (page 3)
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LUMBER, Page 5NO CHANGES
LUMBER, Page 6 NO CHANGES
LUMBER, Page 7
3 Item Code(s) Retired
LBFIKD Idaho White Pine Sterling 1xRWRL Prices Net f.o.b. Mill
LBGIKD Idaho White Pine Standard 1xRWRL Prices Net f.o.b. Mill
LBHFKD Idaho White Pine Utility 1xRWRL Prices Net f.o.b. Mill
LUMBER, Page 8 NO CHANGES
LUMBER Composites NO CHANGES
PANEL – Page 12 NO CHANGES
PANEL Composites NO CHANGES
MIDWEEKNO CHANGES
INTERNATIONAL NO CHANGES
Special Note to database and spreadsheet subscribers
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Special Note for Spreadsheet and Database Subscribers:
RANDOM LENGTHS PRICE GUIDE REVISIONS - April 2016
IMPORTANT NOTICE for Random Lengths LumberEMS (Electronic Media Services) database and spreadsheet subscribers.
Price guide changes will take effect Friday, April 8,2016, for Lumber.
An article about the upcoming Price Guide changes that appeared in Random Lengths March 4,2016 is below, and in the attached Word doc.If you have any questions, please let us know.Attached to this e-mail message is:
-- Price_Guide_Change_Information.doc, a Word doc with the price guide change information, including new and retired tags.
-- Tags-Before-After.xls, a spreadsheet which will show the before and after changes that we are making
-- RL_Tags.xls, the revised Price Item Code Key (spreadsheet format) that contains label names in place of prices, in the same position they appear in the publication
-- RL_Tags.pdf, the revised Price Item Code Key (PDF format) that contains label names in place of prices, in the same position they appear in the publication
FOR DATABASE SUBSCRIBERS:
The new Lumber Description file Lbr_desc.csv, is attached.Midweek items are referenced in the Lumber and Panel Description files. These cross-reference tables contain complete text and key-word descriptions for all price guide labels.
Lumber - Retired items - LASTPUB Date: 04/01/16
DATABASE SUBSCRIBERS PLEASE NOTE:
Support tables are available in Microsoft Access format on request. We're making the support tables used to expand the field codes, including the query used to concatenate the Short, Medium and Long descriptions, available in Access format on request. Please e-mail us at , and we will send them to you.
If you have any questions, please let us know.
Please e-mail us at if you have any questions. Thank you!
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