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GFW-Raccon market update #6301663
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Raccoon Market
The last few years have seen the raccoon prices at historic lows. Stockpiles of raccoon have kept any hope of a price increase at bay. Recently, however, prices have begun to creep up. This is due to dwindling stocks of certain grades and the popularity of long hair coyote style trims.

There have been several years of depressed prices leading to severe cuts in production. Many sections now barely produce any raccoon. Small sizes and heavy skins have sold well, and with few coming in to replace them, we are now left open to more raccoon at increased prices. Ranch mink prices are keeping all prices in check, but we plan to be as aggressive on raccoon as possible.

The Canada Goose coyote trim fad has been so successful that it has left some coyote customers wanting more and different trims. Raccoon is the perfect substitute. Raccoon’s price, texture and workability are putting it in many new fashion lines for the fall.

Decreased production of raccoon coupled with substitution of raccoon for coyote on fur trims have positioned it to make a move this season. So, it might be the time to get out the DP’s.

Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301683
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I'll tell my business partner to check you guys out next year. I've sent to ya in the past and have had good results. He just said he sold one PT at NAFA for a whopping dollar. 89 cents after comm. lol

Good color one to boot, 1-2.

Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301691
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Future pic of LLtrapper's mojo potion bringing 'em in to the DP set.


Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301697
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Could get ugly. crazy I may have to trap a few more than normal. LLL


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Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301706
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Somewhere else I read that some makers of lower priced parkas were switching from coyote to coon trim.

Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301717
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Too bad Rampage Lures has been put out of business...this could be their breakout year!

Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301747
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Tossing out cages as I go this year the coons can pay the gas and I can make a buck on the skunks, The Naysayers will tell you your wasting your time but it's your time a $10-$12 dollar coon is still better then a $4 one in my book or even $8 they are easy to handle.


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Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301749
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Wish we could get that for our coon right now, i'd be trapping them too.

Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301750
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Somebody should fotoshop that coon pic,with a guy holding an open bottle of his lure in the foreground.


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Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301755
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Bad news for the coyote market. frown


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Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301758
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I'd like to see the beaver market wreck the yote market.


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Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301775
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There is higher numbers of coons to catch, since so many of us, myself included, did not target them recently. If the market looks like it is improving, huge numbers of coons will be easily caught, crushing the price again.

We need more finished products made with coon hides. At least there is a start.

Keith

Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301780
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Guessing the coons they are looking for won't just come from just anywhere they will be looking for select coon from certain areas more then nation wide. Where some of them coons come from will have high paying yotes also and some won't be passing on them then to chase coons. Just me thinking to myself. LOL


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Originally Posted By: Boco
I'd like to see the beaver market wreck the yote market.


All you got to do is sell them cheap. Will that help you?


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Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301812
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pretty easy to skin flesh and stretch a coon. goes fairly fast. trap for coyotes and cats in nice weather coons will show up. don't need to run a coon line. doesn't sound like he is talking about a substantial increase.

should a guy sell those coons early or wait till spring?


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Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301824
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I wont be selling any cheap beaver pelts in this raw fur market,just the good ones.

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Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301843
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It seems to me that in reality there are sometimes 2 years and maybe 3 out of every 10 year decade where coons come up in price to a decent amount paid for them.But most every year 4 or 5 months before the season even starts the magazines etc. predict better prices for coon that year.Its either "This is the year coons will really shine !" or at the very least "the old pelts are all sold out and we need a bunch of jumbo fresh coon" Am I not telling the truth guys ? Don't get me wrong I absolutely don't want to be a pessimist ! I hope and pray the price comes up into a decent range on coon ! But I cant help but notice the same pattern or things written every year at about the same time ? Russia and China are supposed to be our biggest coon buyers by far from what Ive read over the years.And right now Russia seems to be P'd off bad at us over tariffs.I don't know if those tariffs effect fur ? Same stuff with China too I think.

Now having said that about what Ive noticed over the years I will say that out of the sources that I know of that make predictions I will say that Groenwalds do seem to always be a lot more in the know on the coon market than most imo.Again,Im just going off of what I remember them predicting over the years etc.And them being pretty accurate about the coon market.Now maybe some of you have proof of something different.And in that case I'm all ears etc.becuse I'm just trying to learn without a crystal ball.

Now if the price paid for coon does go up and gets hot like it did for a season or 2 a few years back then rather than LL's description of it getting ugly I will see it as a thing of beauty.I do believe I know exactly what you mean there LL.I just prefer to call it more of a thing of beauty even though I believe you and I are describing the exact same thing.Lets just say I am so thankful that I do not live in Iowa !!! Between LL,J.A.,RO'H,KK,RH,K.O.,D.P.,B.S.B.B.and I'm sure quite a few out of staters that give it a try with the more favorable laws.It is bound to become a cluster bunch lol

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'We plan to be as aggressive on coon as possible". Translation, we will buy your coon but cheap.

Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: Boco] #6301847
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Originally Posted By: Boco
I wont be selling any cheap beaver pelts in this raw fur market,just the good ones.

I know what the good ones are selling for. Cheap.


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Re: GFW-Raccon market update [Re: GFW - GROENEWOLD] #6301849
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I thought aggressive meant that they are willing to offer a higher price than the competition to get the goods.


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