I got a bunch of good ones there from last year too.FHA will try to protect the trappers intrests,but I don't think they will hold them again.

I am willing to bet they sell them all or as much as they can, this year they can play the blame game.
You may not be in a hurry but they don't run on love'
Last year they could have sold at these prices but would have looked bad, this year they can blame the other guy for the drop lol.

I thought we were blaming the mink ranchers.

Close, that's for the whole fur trade mess,
but for the marten NAFA smoked them last year because of the Korean buyers that came to buy the black mink, when FHA went too Helsinki, they could not match the prices so held making their shippers think they were protecting the trappers interest.
If they would have sold them they would have lost shippers and looked bad, instead they held them.
Now they can sell them telling everyone that the market has dropped and blame the other guy.
Either way their shippers have lost a year to get the drop, may look good but the reality is what it is.
I would have thought you would have figured this out?
In all fairness two years ago they had the better marten sale,

Great video, Jim. Appreciate you showing the ranch mink and ranch fox too.

I wondered how NAFA stole the Koreans. Baited them with cheap ranch mink.

Should have lots of money left this year after buying mink. Hopefully they can finish filling their orders for big marten in Helsinki.

P.S. I hope Mark was taking the Koreans to the nudey bar every night after the Auction promoting Helsinki.

Just shows you the strength of NAFA actually having a real marketing team and investing in the promotion of fur. If your marketing strategy is to rely on only the Russian market and riding on someone else's coat tails it ends up being the trappers who lose out.

P.S. I sincerely hope they do well, a lot of my friends have skin in this game.

Geez, you act like NAFA had a good marten sale last year. The only thing NAFA did good on was Heavy XXXL -XL not pale After that it was disaster. In May NAFA held the same ones FHA did. Of course, Sojuzpushnina started the collapse in Jan with their 30% increased offering. I give NAFA credit for the results on the large heavies, but if they want credit for the great fur market they are welcome to it.

Like it or not NAFA had the best Marten sale last year in February,
interesting that FHA doesn't even want to try and sell marten anymore in North Bay?
You are keen on knocking NAFA and ranch fur but your ok with FHA having to go to Helsinki to sell with Ranch fur!!

Price of marten tracks the price of ranch mink. So I should blame FHA? Who sells 10 million of them? I'll blame Kopenhagen too if it makes you feel better. Who is NAFA and Kopenhagen?: mink ranchers. FHA is not mink ranchers. They are just trying to sell a few (10 or 100) thousand from the ranchers that despise NAFA.

Did you not blame mink ranchers for the wild fur market problems that currently exist? I think it is fact. It is just reality.

I'm not blaming the WFSC( the 25% non controlling owners of NAFA) for the market problems. Actually, I gave them credit for $4 muskrats just the other day.

How does it benefit either shippers for either Auction to have a bad sale? I want them both to have good sales.

This recent NAFA Marten sale is close to the FHA sale last winter.