The Random Lengths Yearbook is built to make your life easier. Why reinvent the wheel every time you need price information? The Yearbook is the most comprehensive source of market price information available anywhere. Just look at what you get, all in one easy-to-read reference:

11-year Price Histories

11-year Price histories including monthly price averages for over 290 key lumber and panel products, and 5-year graphs for at-a-glance comparisons.

Key commodity items in dimension, boards, studs, OSB, plywood, and particleboard are included. In addition to monthly prices going back 11 years, a table of five-year monthly average prices is shown for each item. Price histories of several key U.S. and Canadian items sold into overseas markets also are shown. Also available are price histories for The Random Lengths Framing Lumber Composite, The Random Lengths Structural Panel Composite.

Species and Product Group Composite Prices, similar to The Random Lengths Framing Lumber and Structural Panel Composite Prices, measure broad price movements for 14 specific product groups and species, including: Random Length Dimension; Studs; Low-grade Dimension; Boards; Shop & Moulding; Southern Pine; Western S-P-F; Eastern S-P-F; Green Douglas Fir; Coast Dry Species; Inland Dimension; OSB; Southern Plywood; and Western Plywood.

Clear, concise tables and graphs to help you with planning and market forecasts.

Price histories are the meat and potatoes of the Yearbook, but there is much, much more:

An easy-to-read chronology spanning the last eight years, detailing factors that influenced lumber and panel markets. U.S. housing starts, both seasonally adjusted and actual, by month, spanning the last four years. Starts are broken down by region and by multi-unit or single-family. Monthly building permits also are reported.

Monthly economic statistics covering the last five years, including interest rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages; the prime rate; treasury bonds; treasury bills; and the monthly close on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Weekly cash settlement prices in lumber futures contracts for the last two years.

Detailed quarterly lumber production figures for the last six years, broken down by region for the U.S. and Canada. Also, quarterly plywood and OSB production figures for the U.S. and Canada.

Export statistics covering the last six years for the U.S. and Canada, broken down by species and destination.