I didn't bring any fur to sell last night but if there's any consolation - I dropped off 6 deer hides with Groeny and got 6 nice pairs of camo gloves. He was 20 minutes early and when I was there, only 3 people in line with deer hides and 1 racoon- hopefully others showed up after to make the route worthwhile for him. Thanks for posting Beav- it is what it is.

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.

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.

How is that a good thing? Were they deer skin camo gloves? I can buy camo gloves for .99 cents. Not saying anything about Groeny, but that is just as lopsided as the Beav and his prices IMO.

prices are a reflection of supply and demand.....wild fur has one major competitor( ranch fur) that is very hard to compete with

prices are a reflection of supply and demand.....wild fur has one major competitor( ranch fur) that is very hard to compete with

Gee, our township paid me $3 for each pair of pocket gopher feet I turned in. I didn't have to skin or flesh them either, just cut off the two front feet.