OUCH!

No surprise I guess With the lockdown and protests in China short term doesn’t look likely it gets much better.

Thanks for the info. Glad that you have a way to make it pay.

The Covid lockdowns in China are unsubstantable, hopefully the mass protests speed up the return to normal

And a return of some kind of demand in fur

dont know that i would call that icing sounds like lacking something to do good to see you getting paid good for catching them though

Thanks Beav. Poor prices but at least we know what the market is or should I say isn't.

Dollar for a put up Mink. I like trapping, but that's a slap in the face.

The other day I was bustin brush trying to find my trail in the forest with all the beetle killed spruce lying everywhere. I kept getting slapped in the face with alders and willows and thought, " This really sucks!" . Well it don't suck as bad as selling fur to groeny!

This has me worried. Our main market is once again locked down. Can't buy fur when you can't even buy food. Surprised groeney is buying at all.

The logjam in China will eventually break, but right now may be the worst possible time to try to sell some fur, unless you just want to be rid of it. One of the disadvantages of the auction house was the long delay in getting things sold. That delay might be an advantage this year. And there isn't much risk, because the market can't decline much more.

Haining City is the fur center of China, a suburb of Shanghai where millions of people are now locked down. This all will eventually end and things will return to some semblance of "nomal" at some point. But I think this year we may just write off selling fur to China or Russia/Ukraine. Keep it all frozen.

Thanks for the info.

What do you plan to do with all that money?

Beav is gonna invest it on booze hookers and gambling and then just squander the rest.

LOL
Boco I'm to old for hookers and one beer will get me a bit dizzy and I worked to hard to spend It on gambling. So I'm committed to deer hunting until spring when I start my ADC contracts. I'm not skinning $5.00 coyotes.

The nearly $4,000 I made doing ADC work Is In my savings account.
I'm trapping a few coon for a limited market. Things aren't going to good though. I have only caught one and 2 grinders. This cold weather has those coon holed up.

25 million people live in Shanghai. Largest city in the world, three times larger than NY City. I can't imagine that the leadership of China can continue this.

Me Also

$4.00 Wisconsin Red Fox? Put up!

Was it prime or still blue?

Folks, there is a dilemma that is going on. A fur buyer on routes will only have so much he/she can go up in price because they are not the end user. So I am not talking about those people, they are more or less executing and no matter what way you split it they will need to make money to do what they do.

The animal fur is worth far more than any prices listed here, and at the end of the day we just shouldn't sell for that price. We need a minimum price list that WE, the trapping industry send out to all the fur buyers and/or the end user. They will pay it as long as we are within a certain percentage, but right now we are just letting foreign buyers scalp us for pennies. I'll sell a non-fleshed raccoon for $3, but that's the minimum. If they want a put up raccoon, the minimum price is $6 and that's gonna be for the southern raccoon. If the foreign buyers don't want to pay our prices AND sell their jackets with our fur....we will either make the jacket ourselves or buy the factory out and keep making the jacket. Just saying.