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Plywood, OSB Prices Fall Plywood, OSB Prices Fall Portland. OR, Dec. 10--The party may be over for wood paneling producers, according to the Oregonian. For most of the year, makers of plywood and oriented strand board enjoyed an enormous surge in prices. Homebuilders bought as much paneling as they could find, as new home construction surged during the summer to the highest levels in more than a decade. The benchmark price for oriented strand board, used as a base for some of the best engineered wood flooring and roofing and roofing products...

“Poor Captain Lyle/ Was drinking a beer at the bar./ One of the local losers/ Tried to get dear/ With a hole in his pocket/ Just to grab his cash fast./ Lyndie the bartender/ Just 86’d her ass.”—James Allen. Photo: “Captain Lyle at the Indian Room,” by Ray Carofano “Poor Captain Lyle/ Was drinking a beer at the bar./ One of the local losers/ Tried to get dear/ With a hole in his pocket/ Just to grab his cash fast./ Lyndie the bartender/ Just 86’d her ass.”—James Allen. Photo: “Captain Lyle at the Indian Room,” by Ray Carofano

From its large lumberyard in eastern Henrico County, the Ruffin & Payne Lumber Co. ships out building products to construction projects around the Richmond region. With 40 years of experience in the lumber industry, company President George E. Haw says he hasn’t experienced anything quite like what has happened this year with lumber prices, as the COVID-19 pandemic has played havoc with them almost all of 2020. “It’s been crazy,” Haw said. “I’ve been around a long time, and I have never seen a lumber market behave like this in 40 years.” On a recent ride aro...