Hard to believe beaver prices dropped when trappers and fur buyers collected and sold end users a sub par product.

Yep Dirt, as the largest beaver collector in the country I think Groenewold ended up getting quite a bit of feedback from their customers on the felt yield from last year's collection.

Disappointing but expected.

One worthy note, in a conversation with Trent, at Greeley Hat works here in Colorado, he commented that the longer the fiber of the underwool from a beaver, the better the hat keeps its shape and last longer. Meaning northern spring beaver make the best beaver felt hats. I guessing gobs of southern beavers gave hat makers heartburn? As a side note, Greely Hats made all the cowboy hats for the series "Yellowstone" and Trent made Costners hat himself, $$$$.

Well....one day all of us subpar-beaver trappers will be dead and gone so ya'll top end-beaver producers will have that market all to yourselves.

Until then...make room for these southern hatters.....$25 per nose count or $5 per nose count.

I'll bet that even southern beaver felt is 10X better than Belgian rabbit or New Zealand wool! (Well 5X anyway).

You would think as the largest beaver collector in the country, Groenewold would know what his customers wanted. He was the one that opened new routes SE, not the trappers.

Last year they wanted beaver period. Groenewold went where the beaver are.

The dummies finally figured out they need beaver with underfur to make felt hats,lol.
I think its called averaging down,Dirt.

Are all three of those men Groenwolds or is the one with the "work shirt" on not part of the family, at least by last name?

I've heard fur buyers use the "well, retail fur garments selling is slow because of the warm weather so far" mantra before. Do people really believe that?

I guess there may be some bimbos out there who perhaps have never lived in the cold winter city before be affected by warm weather in November not to buy a fur piece that year, but someone who has lived in a northern metro most of their years AND who is actually brave enough wearing fur without worrying about being attacked or spit on, knows that it will get cold enough sometime during the winter to not sweat while wearing fur.

Those "dummies" are probably millionaires from buying and selling fur and wool.

How 'bout you Boco?

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How much were the coons all I heard was him talking bout how much they want

$20 tops dried for the best section XXXL

he dont say prices till he see the fur ny coons this year maybe 8 to 10.00 for very best clear leather. i think he getting back to buying coons hoping trump ends the war over there and the russians get back in the market

Ya are we going to war with them?

You need to get your hands on a computer sometime. When you do, there is a thing on there called a "news feed". Give it a shot sometime if you ever get a computer.

I don't pay attention to news lol

Wuka wuka wuka!