A local mink rancher ( who has since pelted out) told me in 2015 it would be depressed for 7 years I hope he knows more than you. Lol.
China has benefited from low prices that came amidst oversupply. Hopefully as supply is corrected pressure will push prices. Don’t know what’s left for demand on high priced furs. Time will tell. There appears to be light at the end of the tunnel, with inventory being liquidated For that I am optimistic.

We need the consumer nations' economies to fire up. For that we need crude oil up over $75 a barrel probably. I think were getting there.

So, you're hoping old Joe shuts down a couple more pipelines?

Nah, he's just realistic realizing all the money that the Trump administration printed followed by the Biden administration doubling down and the effects that the coming devaluation of the dollar will have on fur prices.

Just a friggin' optimist mostly.

Oil up,.catalyst to higher and higher coon prices!,..heard that for a couple decades now. ,..still we hope.

Here it is again. lol

Do you have a rebuttal?


Got them coon traps ready and going to gamble the market will improve?

Even if coon prices double it's still not worth it, and while I think prices will be up a buck or two I will not skin any.

Marten are worth less than a sheet of 7/16" OSB. Take a few marten to build an outhouse. Thanks gubmint!

I sent in a string of coyotes and a sack of rats for this sale. The hope was that they'd open the country by now.... The last sale, with pictures evidently, was somewhat encouraging. I think the rats and coyotes will do OK. Marten still in the freezer.

Does anyone have their account updated to show your fur yet? I sent fresh fur in April and my account isn’t showing it yet.

My account is not updated either

Nope not yet, the accounts are not updated until the last catalogues are posted. It usually happens fairly fast after that.

Steven I have no rebuttal and I actually agree with you. The point was made some time back that I made my point about FHA and NAFA and should let it go and I said to you I will let that go when you let go of the printing money thing. Just showing you that when something is frustrating it is frustrating. Time usually don't change that unless what was wrong stops happening. FHA is still having online auctions and the US is still printing money. Oh and it has nothing to do with Trump now so we can drop that too. lol, LLL

And I have no plans on trapping a thing this season again. Maybe a few beaver if I get calls. LLL

I’ll be trapping come December, it’s one of my better habits. With some luck FHA will put a spring back in our step. It’s overdue.

Markets are delicate and complicated I’m shocked that trappers aren’t more curious about the forces that drive their activities.

Usually in the past accounts would at least show quantities of fur received well before the auction, then grades would show up when the catalogues are posted. I'm not even seeing quantities received yet.

Read a trapper survey. Most trappers primary motive is not economic. So market forces do not drive their activities; entertainment value does. Most are scoring points on how their fur grades, not what it sells for. If they scored on what it sells for in the year 2021 they wouldn't be happy. They want to be in a happy place.

I hear Dimetrios is working overtime on his abacus.