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Post by silverfox on Mar 22, 2023 9:07:34 GMT -6
Hopefully, the markets will perk up. Markets allow trappers to receive some compensation for their time and efforts. Most fur bearers need a harvest just like deer. Without hunters and trappers (and fishermen and women) there would be much less wildlife to enjoy and to keep nature in balance.
We do not trap for the money but without decent fur prices the art of trapping is being lost. Without the 3.80 average for the 326 muskrats I sold to B.D. Duwa (Kalogna, IA) in spring of 1973, I would have probably never attended college at Truman State University in Kirksville and still be an Iowegian.
Please share your FHA and/or other sales results here:
Thanks
Marc
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Post by bigjohn on Mar 22, 2023 10:00:46 GMT -6
As expected a very strong showing on beaver. Everything else in our area still pretty dismal.
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Post by silverfox on Mar 22, 2023 13:14:28 GMT -6
As expected a very strong showing on beaver. Everything else in our area still pretty dismal. I have not been able to find the 2023 auction results yet. Please post them as soon as you see them. Thanks |
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Post by ozarkmountainman on Mar 22, 2023 17:35:22 GMT -6
I bought my first truck with straight-up trapping money.
I bought my first boat with straight-up trapping money.
I won a bass tournament and used the $10,000-whatever paycheck, along with $6500 TRAPPING money to put my first down payment on a house, and made many of the payments the first two years with the same. Then came October of 1987 and it will never be the same. Yeah, we had a few good years. And all those $100-plus otter were nice, but still.
I never did it solely for the money. But it was pretty cool. But like 'fox said, the art is being lost, and that IS all about the money.
Dale
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Post by krank on Mar 23, 2023 6:24:24 GMT -6
I never made a lot of money just enough to make it worthwhile.
Probably the heyday was 8 years ago selling 125 coon to NAFA with a $25 average and a top price of $65.
I read my 1919 copy of FF&G where a trapper struck out in the fall and made $500 by Spring and it was enough money they could loaf all summer.
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Post by silverfox on Mar 23, 2023 13:56:06 GMT -6
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Post by ozarkmountainman on Mar 23, 2023 14:40:00 GMT -6
So why am I scared to click on that link?
Dale
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Post by krank on Mar 24, 2023 6:23:52 GMT -6
Prices look decent. Even possum. Maybe somewhat embellished??? FHA screwed me over really bad and sat on my furs one year and then said they had no value. It would have been cheaper for me to throw them out the window going down the highway than drive to pick up point.
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Post by ozarkmountainman on Mar 24, 2023 7:12:49 GMT -6
FHA never screwed anybody as bad as NAFA...
Dale
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Post by krank on Mar 24, 2023 9:39:21 GMT -6
I was always happy with NAFA. First year of FHA, I got rooked and second year I got 100% hosed. I know some people that got hosed 4 digits. Never heard of NAFA doing that.
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Post by Walleye Joe on Mar 25, 2023 7:53:07 GMT -6
NAFA hosed me! They deposited fur money in my bank account then a few days later they took it back and went belly-up! It wasn't much, but it was something. Here's a screenshot that still shows on their website.  |
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Post by krank on Mar 25, 2023 9:33:52 GMT -6
Hosed you twice,once on the price.
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Post by segsarge on Mar 26, 2023 3:19:22 GMT -6
I liked NAFA, wish things had turned out different for them. Then again it was only about a 30 minute drive for me to drop off my fur. Prices weren't always great, but I never got hosed like I did with a country buyer. I guess everyone had a different experince with NAFA, some good some bad.
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Goodbye 2020