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    <font size="+2">Are we near the fringe of 'survival', as where a
      farmer has to eat next year's seeds to stay alive?</font><br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/23/21 9:12 AM, Stephen Offiler
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      <div dir="ltr">I can see where you'd call it greed, and I am not
        necessarily disagreeing with you, Bo, but there's a lot of
        moving parts here.
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        <div>Look at it from the standpoint of the family that owns the
          local lumber yard.  They have bills to pay - maybe the yard
          still has a mortgage, and there's electricity, payroll,
          benefits, taxes, etc.  They probably do OK when business is
          normal, say there's a million board feet going out the door at
          $1/bdft, so they bring in a million dollars.  Point is that
          most of it goes to paying those bills I just mentioned.  But
          what about now?  There is a lumber shortage.  They can't get
          lumber as easily any more.  They might be able to move only
          half a million board feet, but those bills are still there, so
          they need to put the price up to $2/bd ft to bring in a
          million dollars to pay the bills.</div>
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        <div>SO</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 8:59
          AM Bo Hinch <<a href="mailto:bohinch@gmail.com"
            moz-do-not-send="true">bohinch@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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          <div dir="ltr">I don't necessarily agree with what the video
            is representing . In my area ( Sulphur Louisiana ) , lumber
            prices doubled and sometimes tripled from one week till the
            next week . It can be blamed on hurricanes , which we went
            through back to back last year , or forest fires last year
            but my thoughts are people being greedy and ripping us off
            and there is NOTHING we can do except pay the price , or ,
            do without . Same thing with the steel building components ,
            prices tripled with-in two weeks . Just my opinion of how we
            are being taken advantage of .</div>
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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at
              11:36 PM Roger Moffat <<a
                href="mailto:rogerkiwi@gmail.com" target="_blank"
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              wrote:<br>
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              <div>Saw this on Facebook this evening - seems to sum up
                the situation
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                  <blockquote type="cite">On Apr 22, 2021, at 4:42 AM,
                    Stephen Offiler <<a
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                    I happened across this video just a few days ago. 
                    Several factors, but the central theme boils down to
                    basic supply and demand.<br>
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                    <a href="https://youtu.be/3Ssa7yooX3k"
                      target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://youtu.be/3Ssa7yooX3k</a><br>
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                    SO<br>
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                    On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 11:03 PM John Maddock <<a
                      href="mailto:agtronixjv@bigpond.com"
                      target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">agtronixjv@bigpond.com</a>>
                    wrote:<br>
                    Supply and demand ?  Maybe!<br>
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                    <a
href="https://www.timberbiz.com.au/us-lumber-prices-soar-demand-is-high-but-stumpage-is-static/"
                      target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.timberbiz.com.au/us-lumber-prices-soar-demand-is-high-but-stumpage-is-static/</a><br>
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                    JV<br>
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                    From: "Mike M" <<a href="mailto:meulenms@gmx.com"
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                    Sent: Thursday, 22 Apr, 2021 At 12:18 PM<br>
                    Subject: [AT] Lumber prices<br>
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                    What the heck is going on with lumber prices?  I
                    needed a sheet of OSB<br>
                    which was once $10 a is now $35 a sheet?<br>
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                    Mike M<br>
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