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Post by silverfox on Feb 19, 2017 14:14:56 GMT -6
Largest and second most honest fur buyer in MO just sent the results to me!
And, thank you, Justin Elliot for all you do for the fur business.
Great prices!
I suspect we are all rich now but never know!!
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Post by threestud on Feb 21, 2017 19:35:01 GMT -6
Was the price s that bad that no one can post for all to see ?
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Post by krank on Feb 21, 2017 19:52:40 GMT -6
Finish your paragraph, Marc....
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Post by Walleye Joe on Feb 21, 2017 20:26:07 GMT -6
Was the price s that bad that no one can post for all to see ? Here's a link to the results.
MTA Fur Auction 2017
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Post by krank on Feb 22, 2017 7:19:26 GMT -6
Not real great but could be worse. Badgers always a surprise. Otter seems to be the only thing that didn't go down from last year.
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Post by silverfox on Feb 22, 2017 19:03:51 GMT -6
El Kranko, you rock as usual!
Most of the markets are surviving except for coons and possums. The taxidermy market is always about the same but still continues to make the cat and a few other species look more valuable on the sale averages than the pelts are bringing. I have bought more cats, greys, reds, otters, nutria (yes nutria, haha, they will be up there soon thanks to Al gore!)than ever! Of course no one else buys fur. time you for young kiddos to jump in and take over this lucrative business!
I have been paying $50 for cats and way too much for otters,reds, greys, yotes and everything else. But when the sun goes down on this season it will be my best season ever. I hope to break even. If anyone wants a pile of beautiful prime green coon pelts for .50 each, come down. They will be yours. You can finish them and make money.
I think it is sort of funny but also an eye opener that almost all fur buyers I know refuse to buy any more coon hunted coon no matter how they are treed, shot, skinned etc. I have jumped onto that bandwagon and will stay there. The days of coon hunting for a living are over! Trapping for income is most likely a diminishing field of enterprise. But, someone will have to harvest the critters or they will slip away to extinction. Facts are facts!
Hope you gals and guys keep trapping and huntin' or our grandchildren will only see furbearers in pictures.
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Post by krank on Feb 22, 2017 19:27:05 GMT -6
Thanks Marc....I would take you up on the 50 cent coon if I didn't have a full time job. Kranks Koonskin Kaps...
I saw a nutria killed on the road. That's all we need is invasive species.
A big reason fur is down so bad is the last 8 years of pitiful foreign policy and poor trade agreements. Our current administration is savvy as to proper delegations to foreign countries. Hopefully they will make headway despite all the fake news the media is propagating.
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Post by silverfox on Feb 22, 2017 19:42:04 GMT -6
If eating beaver and saving trees has anything to do with it! Trump and I def will take care of that! We are both doing our best to save trees and we agree on the fine taste of beaver!
I don't watch the media but sure they are happy, complacent and sad depending on who is buying their advertisement.
Great post, El Kranko!
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Post by krank on Feb 22, 2017 21:06:20 GMT -6
I knew you would love it. Our new president is big on beaver as opposed to our last president that had a debatable preference.
We just need to hang in there and ride this out.
"Beaver will shine again"-Henry Frapp-1838
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Post by krank on Feb 23, 2017 15:10:34 GMT -6
I cant stomach the (fake) news these days but I love to read what happened 100 years ago.
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Post by adccoyote on Mar 24, 2017 18:52:18 GMT -6
The 2 big fur coons and coyotes not good at all, but we knew that going into the season.
I talked with a good friend of mine in SD he avg 58.92 on his coyotes!
Coyotes have to be the top 10-15 percent or the price drop is a lot.
The saving grace for northern fur will be the rough winter and lack of harvest on coyotes and bobcats up north.
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Goodbye 2020