LUMBER AND COMMODITY REPORT – August 2016 by Don Magruder, CEO of RoMac Building Supply The Ro-Mac Lumber & Supply, Inc. Wood Commodity Index (Index) for July 2016 took back its decrease from June by adding 3.3 percent or $10.80 per thousand. The increases in cost were not across the board, which indicates a weakness is possibly […]
LUMBER AND COMMODITY REPORT – July 2016 by Don Magruder, CEO of RoMac Building Supply The Ro-Mac Lumber & Supply, Inc. Wood Commodity Index (Index) for July 2016 took back its decrease from June by adding 3.3 percent or $10.80 per thousand. The increases in cost were not across the board, which indicates a weakness is possibly […]
LUMBER AND COMMODITY REPORT – June 2016 by Don Magruder, CEO of RoMac Building Supply The Ro-Mac Lumber & Supply, Inc. Wood Commodity Index for June dropped 2.0% as large declines in pine, especially wide-width, dragged most of the market down. Mills continue to struggle with balancing the long-term supply and demand equation in their favor because […]
LUMBER AND COMMODITY REPORT – May 2016 by Don Magruder, CEO of RoMac Building Supply The Ro-Mac Lumber & Supply, Inc. Wood Commodity Index for May increased 4.4% to $329.32. This marks the second month in a row of strong increases even though the rate of increase has slowed to about half as much. Most of the […]
LUMBER AND COMMODITY REPORT – April 2016 by Don Magruder, CEO of RoMac Building Supply The Ro-Mac Lumber & Supply, Inc. Wood Commodity Index for April increased 10.9% to $315.50 as most items felt upward pressure. Over the last month, the first three weeks were the strongest for price increases, with some pricing cracks developing in the […]
LUMBER AND COMMODITY REPORT – March 2016 by Don Magruder, CEO of RoMac Building Supply In last month’s report, I said the next 30-45 days would probably give a better indication of the housing market’s direction for the spring. It appears the housing market is starting to show some life, based on increases in the Wood Commodity […]
LUMBER AND COMMODITY REPORT – January 2016 by Don Magruder, CEO of RoMac Building Supply As 2016 begins, not much has changed in the commodity markets over the last 30 days—uncertainty abounds. The Ro-Mac Lumber & Supply, Inc. Wood Commodity Index (Index) for Central Florida in January declined 0.8 percent to $287.83 per thousand. To be fair, […]
LUMBER AND COMMODITY REPORT – December 2015 by Don Magruder, CEO of RoMac Building Supply Just as I predicted last month, the price increases from October and November did not seem sustainable, and they were not. The Ro-Mac Lumber & Supply, Inc. Wood Commodity Index (Index) for Central Florida in December declined 3.7 percent to $290.27 per […]
LUMBER AND COMMODITY REPORT – November 2015 by Don Magruder, CEO of RoMac Building Supply The Ro-Mac Lumber & Supply, Inc. Wood Commodity Index (Index) for Central Florida in November increased 7.4% to $301.41 per thousand, as the markets struggled to find a direction. The problem with the late fall run is that half of the items […]
