coonman,you need to climb off that nafa train,it wrecked.

start researching other avenues ya have and make the best of your time.thats my plan anyway.

And therefore, to the producers whose fur NAFA still holds hostage, I say: BOHICA !!!

w

We are all going to be rich this year off of our furs $100 coyotes,$50 fox,$35 coon,$35 mink,$12 muskrats,$40 beavers,$100 otter,$300 bobcat,$100 fisher and $100 marten LOL.

I would like to see $12 rats , there is not many around here right now , and $100 otter again ,I would drive a little then .

BO-HI-CA

I think we agree on not referring to trapping as a sport. Public approval for recreational trapping is low,. around 35% right at the bottom. The public does not seem to care too much for trapping for money( around 43%), but they seem awful supportive of subsistence trapping ( livelihood ) around 75%.

I agree.

ooops,i used that term by mistake,wasn't trying to stir anything up,sooooo sorry.i will try to chose my words better next time.

gotta go put up fur for trappers that don't have the time.

gooood day

You are just repeating the word used in many trapping publications including the American Trapper and the former International Trapper.

nah i was messin with ya but you are right.

Proly enjoy being in the outdoors losing a little money most years than being in stores loading up credit cards. I find shopping just to be shopping expensive and rather boring.

I wonder if fur will be like Wisconsin's dairy industry. If milk prices rise, it seems farmers ramp up production & send the price down.

Fashion drives the market imo

Boy it’s cold out there. Does a fella have to go clear to China for a coat with a decent liner? By decent I’m referring to muskrat.

My children are interested and need to learn to work hard. Therefore, I will take a week of vacation and trap with my children and they can see the rewards of hard work and learn about utilizing a renewable, sustainable resource that needs managed. They will see me struggle to work hard for a while and finish all my fur this winter. Then they will see me stand back, appreciate my catch, and take it to sell. I will be rewarded some unknown amount financially, but the time I get to spend with my children teaching them is priceless to me. If I do not teach them to appreciate Gods creation and how to harvest it and care for it, I have failed them as a father.

I sold to Groenwald today. Sold 20 coon for $8.90 average. $20.00 was the top end, $2 on the bottom.

12 rats for a $2.50 average. $5 on the top end, $1 on the bottom.

1 very early male mink for $2.

All the fur was from mid October on, all was put up. It was just a sampling of my fur, wasn't cherry picked.

Thought some would be interested.

Thanks for the update

If Boco and Dirt ever agree on anything, it won't be the end of a fur market, but probably the end of the Earth.

So, has GFW's basis on coon slid a little since last year or because they were early coon? Last year, I thought their top on finished big coon was $25 or maybe that was in Dec with fully prime late Nov and Dec coon? What was the 2 buck finished, a 1xl coon...?

mid oct.-early.