2019-2020 Auction Schedule & Preliminary Offering

We are pleased to announce that the Auction Schedule and Preliminary Offering for the 2019-2020 season is now available.

The offering includes a total of 8,5 million Saga Furs superior mink, 2 million high quality fox skins of the widest variety in the world, and 500 000 other types including Finnraccoon and Karakul.




Always curious about the overseas auction houses. Always surprised how much fur they move every year.

What I notice is no FHA with them anymore. I see FHA is going on there own.

Ya I heard they where dropping the SAGA auction because of expense of shipping pelts there etc.

Selling in Helsinki hasn't been too lucrative the last two years either.

Strange; 8.5 million is not down from the 8.5 million offered last year?

Pelt outs have to go somewhere. Plus saga is picking up more European and North American mink too.

I’m in a once mink ranch concentration of Wisconsin last year or two has several leaving the business. Kinda sad actually. Hope the industry recovers.

Don't worry nimzy the farms just get bigger that survive. The bad part is the big farms can sell mink cheaper.

Not so much. Mink are a high labor animal that no matter the state if the art machines available will always have a lot of hands on work to be done. What can be saved is money on feed volume. So the largest ranches can feed cheaper but will always have a high labor bill.

From what I have seen on the dairy farms in WI there is a way to cut labor costs Didn't say it was legal.

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The fact that countries are banning ranching and others making it very difficult plays in as well. Much like trapping it lacks a young generation of ranchers. We are all dinosaurs I personally think it’s about over. The few big ones left will probably market directly to China. In twenty years the prospects of a fur business seems bleak. Hopefully I’m wrong