So what happens when theres only 18 million hitting the market as opposed to 100 million.? I dont think anyone really knows the answer, its gonna be another interesting year.

Was interested in their comment that "beaver will sell". Clearances from their second big sale of the year (september) surely didn't reflect that notion.

FHA keeps better unsold goods for several years. They might lower the value. Low grade goods are subject to disposal.

Got water out there Kingrat
Got rats?
Got 20$ bills eh
When there was only 60 mill mink rats went 16$
Do the math...the new math that is

Getting reports that fur is really moving in China especially ranch mink. The projected number of ranch mink to be offered next year is less than 20 million skins.

The trouble now a days is with the chinese.
A wild mink garment when made by an italian master fur designer is a much more beautiful,durable,and valuable product than a compareable ranch mink garment.
The chinese do not have the skills of the italian master furriers and likely never will as the masters never mass produced garments on an assembly line like the chinese do with ranch fur.
When working with ranch fur it is all the same-no matching skills involved in the manufacture or design of individual garments-mass production.The walmart fur coat-thousands all identical.Wild mink is one of the most difficult fur to work with because of the many different sections of wild mink.But the end product when put together by the masters is somewhat a work of art.And the price reflects that.
The chinese when working with fur are the same as when they work with anything else-mass production of as much as possible with the least amount of work possible as cheap as possible with little skill involved.

There are still a few italian masters at work in the high fashon end of the business but no one wants to pay the high prices that well matched wild fur garments demand,when they can get a cheap ranch fur product from china.

Many products have gone downhill in the same way when the chinese start cranking stuff out en masse as cheap as possible.

As it should be. If trappers don’t want thier pelts disposed of they can learn to skin and put up only the good ones. We could all benefit from some grading classes so that we know what to offer for sale and what to weed out. The market as a whole would benefit, in my opinion.

sheared mink

Did someone suggest sheared beaver. This is not going to compete.

If Herman was not hiding on an Island he could explain this ONE MORE TIME.

There are so many ways wild fur can be used but there just isn’t anybody out there leading the charge, we are stuck on the same old fashion ideas and ways.