You must be spending all your floor money for your trophy room..

On Steak & Lobster...lol

Good morning, 62f and raining hard here today. Have a great day.!!!!

Neighbor has been selling angus/Holsteins.

burnt and sweet notes seem to make a lot of difference.

Good news

I miss my dad every day every hour every minute

TTT1

Joco, we have a daltile store.
Tiled pools and spas for 18 years. Great store and service.
As with all tile have to get same lot numbers because color definitely fluctuates as you know.
We bought it by the pallet loads and would record lot numbers to cross reference in the warehouse should we have a problem or have to go back for repairs. Always gave the customer enough tile for repairs so it would match also

Seems a lot of guys here are missing the point. Its not some other country is better then the US they are not. Its other places are good enough to live at a much more affordable price. At least thats how I take it I may well be incorrect. But you can get by in the is on 4k a month ss and savings but thats just geting buy. In other countries you may be able to live on that like you would if you had 8 k living in the US. If you can live with the trade offs it could be a good deal. Im sure its not for everyone. And can be great for others.

Probably several,I wouldnt know I dont eat at the chinky too often.
They had a good one in Kap,but havent been to the chinky there in a few years.

To get this thread back to the original OPs question about the current state of the fur markets for the last several years.

The Good-
1. For those of us who run full multispecies lines, we are never chasing the market and benefit the most when the prices of certain species goes up unexpectedly. If one species falls, generally other species increase, so we are less effected by the big up and down swings.
2. Higher prices will bring interest back to the sport for casual trappers who in turn bring their kids along with it.
3. Muskrat prices increasing is a great time to get kids into trapping as they are easy to catch if your area has them and the kids can make a little money from their efforts.
4. As others have stated, I rarely have competition on my line.

The Bad-
1. Market Chasers. People who see a spike in value of a species and trap them hard the next season to try and capitalize on the new price only to see the price fall because the market is flooded. For example skunks, 2.5 times more skunks on FHA June auction compared to last year and the price fell by more than half of last years prices. I can see the same thing happening to mink next season just from the threads on Tman.

The Ugly
1. USA trapping staples such as Raccoons and Coyotes prices are still in the gutter. This is only going to have negative impact on trapper numbers in lots of areas if this continues for long.
2. People who won't trap even with increasing prices because they can't figure out how to make money and belittle those who can by saying they're wasting their time. There are several people who have commented in this thread that fall into this category.

In summary, I think that trapping in a better place today than it was 2 years ago and have no reason to believe that it will only get better over the next few years.

Schmattz