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When the garment buyers show up in the room,it drives up the basis (top grades) due to all the competitive bidding. When the top grades sell high every other grade below will follow that basis. When the hatters cant scoop the top grades for the prices they can pay then they have to get what they need further down in the catalog.Thats why you see bigger prices paid for the bottom stuff too at certain auctions. Right now the garment market is hot for a lot of fur including sheared as well as the silky dark straight haird good early northern beaver.
That is a very good explanation. The strength of the beaver market isn't surprising to me. Now the mink market is another story
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you guys are way more excited about mediocre beaver prices than me.
I think the main reason is it’s probably quite a bit easier to put up large numbers of beaver down here in a short time, hence making it a slightly better return that it would be for you. But maybe I’m wrong? Happy trapping! ScottW
A forty dollar beaver is pretty much a hundred dollar beaver for me these days...with all the value added's I have with beavers. Plus I can catch as many as I want with little effort.
The wild mink market is not surprizing to me. The ranch mink numbers are at their nadir and the factories need to keep their technicians working. With my nink avg at 73 50 cad at the last sale you will likely see 10 dollar rats very shortly.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
A forty dollar beaver is pretty much a hundred dollar beaver for me these days...with all the value added's I have with beavers. Plus I can catch as many as I want with little effort.
Beaver value has just tripled if you are a marten/cat trapper.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
Im didtributing a pile of beaver(and other carcasses) in my core marten and core lymx habitat again this spring-increases the carrying capacity of the line substantially. Late winter,early spring is when the carrying capacity of the land is set-when the weak are pared back.
Forget that fear of gravity-get a little savagery in your life.
I've noticed that cats will come back months and even years later to these spots where you dumped carcasses....maybe just re-living the good times. I've sure taken advantage.
you guys are way more excited about mediocre beaver prices than me.
Yep, I mean it is nice they are worth something. Better than they have been in a long time. But everytime I hear people going on about high dollar beaver (same thing a few years ago when the hatter market got hot) I look at prices and think, "I was getting that much for beaver back in high school, and gas was $1/gallon."
I had 14 blanket beaver in my boat one day last November. After carrying them to the truck, and some rest, I thought, "Man! is this fun!. My back still hurts.
Dump some beaver out here you will have a flock of buzzards and a herd of possum's clean them up in about 3.5 days, lol. But don't worry, it will increase the carrying capacity of possums and they don't forget where those free meals were either, for decades! lol.
