Fur Harvesters sale this morning

Talked with a broker at the sale a few minutes ago and he indicated good quality beaver are selling very strong. Probably not enough to put a smile on a trappers face but it's definitely pointed up after five years. We'll see.

I didn't catch the biggest selects but heard the rest. It wasn't too bad IMO. GLad I had what I did there.

Pretty good sale for quality beaver. Otters are still cheap, they're finishing them now.

anyone catch the top couple lots of beaver ?

Good Beavers are now worth more than good Otter.

Were they able to move any fisher?

Not so good on Fisher, they did sell some.

Trying to watch the sale but it quit working. Any one else watching? Having problems?

Not working for me.

I had sound but now it wont play. Too much traffic probably. (Internet)

Live feed went down.

To many people logged on and it overloaded the systems capability is my thought. It will be corrected in time.

So he told you prices and you won't post them? Now you sound like a B,S,ing Canadian Auction shill.

Where did I say he told me prices. Don't be such an impatient blowhard. he said they sold strong, just like I posted. OK, blowhard is strong let's stick with impatient.

Someone just came in and PT'd the fisher, way below valuations. No I don't have prices. He said way below valuations. I should have given a buy order in advance, snooze and lose. I am getting play by play texts, but it's hard to keep up.

I figured you would have asked? I would have.

Already sold my 1 beaver last sale for 3...…..Darn...…..it may have got 4 this sale.

Great. Fisher, the new coon.

When blanket beaver average 60 70 bucks with the section 3 out I'll get excited.

Early II's, XLG, color 3-4 $10. Sounds like New York skins.

What did muskrats do? Especially the smaller sizes.

Average? That's gonna make shearing blankets over $100, can you hold your breath that long?

Don't know yet, I'll ask.

You scared me. I thought somebody snapped them all up cheap.

Finishing up the coyotes right now 1:05 Eastern time, he said coyote trappers should be happy as usual, no prices for me as he was busy bidding. Nancy, I asked about rats and he did not watch the auction, but he said he observed people pouring over rats prior, and heard good clearance, that's all folks.

And that's just 1980 prices.....

A buck an inch and very little grading (in the country), that'll never happen again.

I just sold my wife 5 section 3 tanned beaver for $ 480. I guess it helps to marry a blonde Minnesota girl who can sew.

The very little grading in the country is happening right now. Throw them on a scale and buy by the pound. LOL

Yes at about 1830 mountain man prices.

Takes a heck of a woman to sew well when she is blind

What are they selling right now?

when do the western cats go on the block?

Nice thing about selling hatter beaver is you know exactly how much they are going to sell for - around here a $9-10 average on the hide and about $8 average on castor per beaver.

I wonder if my mink sold, this go-round? Have a few that this is their 6'th auction!

Cats and sable won't sell till the 12 of June in Finland.

She may be blind to my looks, but she ain't blind to the fur pieces I put in front of her. Most of the damage is just rubs. I work around them. In the end there is maybe a 5 percent loss of usable fur. So, I sell her a good blanket for $100 to $110 and damaged for $90 to $100. I took a 5% hit on the deal, not the 50 to 60% hit you take at an Auction.

Ranch fox are finishing up now 3:17 eastern time, stronger prices.

Coon sell yet?

Hope I made a fortune on my bought back mink!!!

Good clearances and higher prices on Red Fox. Things are pointing up, for the most part. I hope five years of decline is over, now if we can just wade thru ranch mink.

Thanks for the updates.

$4.09 Avg on Rats. High was $10.10, low was $1.00.

38avg on my yotes

Had a bear in this sale, sold for $410. Wasn’t expecting to get that!

Must have been a nice bear.

Well that’s not terribly impressive, not much more then what I was paying for carcass coyotes in that area.

None of my held over mink sold. All but 1 coyote (a section IV -Damaged) sold ave. $35. My 1 red fox did not sell either. I had 1 3X2X Beaver GD Damaged sell for $13.

Fisher

5011 MD-SM SELECT PL B 9705021 1 $25.00 $25.00
5017 MD-SM SELECT PL C 9705022 1 $22.00 $22.00
5035 MD-SM SELECT DK BRN-BRN C 9705014 1 $21.00 $21.00
5076 MD-SM I-II LT BRN B 9705004 1 Unsold to be re-offered
5093 MD-SM I-II DK BRN-BRN C 9705002 1 Unsold to be re-offered
5104 MD-SM II LT BRN B-C 9705027 1 Unsold to be re-offered
5156 1X-LG I-II PL A-B 9705043 1 $27.00 $27.00
5159 1X-LG I-II PL C 9705044 1 $24.00 $24.00
5192 1X-LG II BRN-LT BRN A-B 9705047 1 $17.00 $17.00
5202 1X-LG GD SLT LT BRN-PL A-B 9705053 1 $26.00 $26.00

"Our success has always been based on respect and service and a deep understanding that trappers like
everyone wish a fair return for their efforts. However more importantly you believe in who you are and what
you do and to all of you who did not hang up your traps and continued trapping and supporting your auction
house thank you.

Respectfully

Mark Downey
Chief Executive Officer
Fur Harvesters Auction Inc."
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That makes me feel better

No one mention coon sales ?

These fisher prices are killing me.

None of our heldover furs sold.

I got $44 for a 3x select beaver, my beaver avg size large on up was $22.85

What color keets? I had 5 2x-3x select heavy brown that didn’t sell.

says 3x2x select hvy brn...must have just missed the top lot

3x2x GD SLT HVY BRN $20 after that,

Dang. All 5 of mine were in lot 116.

I sold 13 of 14

Yeah those 5 select heavies were all that didn’t sell out of 32. Averaged just under 16.00 without those selling.

nice to see clearance on it...all my fur sold except that 1 beav

Do FHA shippers have access to the sale in progress, or the catalogs to see prices and clearances, or do they only see prices on thier own good that sell? Just wondering about the reporting process as it seems information from these sales trickles out slowly.

When it works there is a live feed, but no catalog price information. Just account data.

In about 7-10 days, FHA will post a catalog on,ins with prices the lot sold for. 0.00 = Bought Back = not sold.

That was a bad sale for me. All the coons sold. No fishers sold, no weasels sold, castor didn’t sell. And my select mink and beavers didn’t sell either

I think they set fire to the coon and burned them to toast marshmallows.

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I believe castor sales show up a little later on accounts than fur.

So what did coon bring

Heartbreak.

Why noone talking about coon prices

you mean they are worth something ? lol

Coon are the new Nutria.

You should sell to Groenewold and ease your misery.

^At least half anyways!^

from what I had heard you are wasting time trapping mink as the ranch mink farms where dumping their inventory and not even keeping breeding pairs

So what were coon bringing for averages an clearance? Why noone talking??.

Sold all my fur to Groeny except for red fox and cats got sent to FHA. None of my red fox sold...

Noone talk about fha coon, fha is much smaller than nafa, not as much talk hers, no talk coon means poor clearance an low prices likely, still nafa coon sale, could be much better

It most likely means that no one looking at this thread shipped any there and FHA hasn't published a report yet.

Your coon at NAFA will sell in the nest week to ten days. Chill out, what you get is what you are going to get.

I DID NOT have any coon at this FHA auction. I had 4 coon at the March FHA auction that were caught in February. They averaged $12.88.

Might be better but I doubt "much" better.

Well, I had 3 coon there ..they all sold...2-4x, then 1-2x.....C colors avg $8

I had 14 coon there, 10.89 average, lowest $3 and the highest 22$

Actually, we would still be selling cheap at a buck an inch compared to 1980 prices. A 60 dollar 1980 beaver would be like getting $186 average today in inflation adjusted dollars.

The guys who didn't hang up their traps are getting about $7 in 1980 dollars for good blankets at Auction. I have not raised my price on beaver in 25 years, not a very good business model.

It'll be in Idaho in a few weeks .

Not to many years ago , nafa had good spring sale in beaver as well as country buyers, back 5 years. Or lil more. I had top lot beaver around upper $40 an others in $30 plus to $40 range. Never know, all coon might sell almost I got nafa an good prices for now

I'm sure it'll be around that. They do have a shipment headed out of the first week of June. Not sure if that includes CITES or not.

Awesome! Did you buy it or know someone who did?

The later it gets the more nervous I would be if I had any amount of coon at auction. I sold the last seven 3x C SLD for 9.50 each. Can I ask why you sold them on this auction or NAFA. Were they holdovers from the march sale? That was the only coon I had not sold so I have zero on the books now. LLL

LLL maybe it's not late but early, who knows. I do know our coon here are to heavy for coat liners, but will work for coyote substitute. Don't think there will be much of a market move on NAFAs auction and FHA didn't have enough to gauge anything.

Last year, the coon in the May auction averaged fifty cents more than in the March auction. I did right at sixteen at the March auction.

This year I did twenty at the March, and twelve at the May. I can note that I didn't have much of a sampling on either auction this year, as I had a minor surgery on my ankle and couldn't trap through Dec and Jan., so basiclly was just the coon caught in coyote sets both early and late.

These are Ohio coon. I am OK with the prices on the coon and rats. Beaver was a disaster!

Yes, it was prepped very nicely.

Thanks! And thank you for buying it.

How cool is it that a Tman member in Nova Scotia sends his bear Hide to FHA auction and it is bought by a Tman member in Idaho. Small world.

It would be even cooler to know where the Hide ends up once it is tanned and sold to a customer.

How about it CDA trapper - do you think it is possible you could report back when this happens?

Wrong auction house, Nancy!

Oops!! Thank you so much. I've edited my post to name the correct auction house.

Sucks getting old!!

I know! I thought it was pretty crazy as well. I would also love to know where it ends up.

Good Ohio coon prices an sold

I'll be sure to throw a tag on it when the shipment comes in and see where it decides to go!

Got a few official numbers on beaver, price up a strong 30%+ across the board, better northern skins saw the best increase. Basis was $60 on dark, $44 or $46 on brown heavy blankets. Fisher and Otter were the toughest items, very cheap. Everything else was pretty good, encouraging!

Anyone track the beaver prices per lot for the better goods? Prices haven't been posted by FHA yet.

Spruce

March FHA 2019

3X-2X select HVY DK-XDK $47

3X-2X Select HVY Browns $40

GD slts were the good news, and smaller sizes.

Thanks wy.wolfer, we need all the good news we can get. Appreciate your updates.

. Could be right Dave. It isn’t like between selling now and earlier anyone has lost much. It isn’t great to see NAFA has a top evaluation of only 32 dollars on the best coon in the world. I have heard that buyers can sell small coon and big damaged ones right now. Beaver market? What beaver market?

102
3X-2X SELECT HVY XDK-DK
9700336
2
$62.00
$124.00

Recent sale for NE Ohio Beaver

I cannot download data for evaluations on my phone. $32 is valued for top lot coon? What are 4xl in 1-2 color in select on hvy valued at ?

4001 4X-3X SELECT DK BRN-BRN 9704051 4 $62.00 $248.00

4002 4X-3X SELECT DK BRN-BRN 9704021 3 $62.00 $186.00

4007 2X SELECT DK-DK BRN 9504070 5 $30.00 $150.00

4009 2X SELECT DK-DK BRN 9704056 10 $30.00 $300.00

4012 2X SELECT BRN-LT BRN 9504067 16 $31.00 $496.00

4014 2X SELECT BRN-LT BRN 9704055 4 $31.00 $124.00


Had 7 of the 15 top otters, but the prices dropped off quickly.

. 28

Oh, now you went and did it!

$28, if they get that, not good, down from a year ago, my lot letter for coons like they were all almost cherry pick as leftovers were all best, what shipped in March was almost all big Jumbo's

Wow. The swamp silence will be broken....Back to the days of night lites and fist fights. Interest has a trickle down effect.

Any comments on how the heavy coon sold for?

FHA March 2019.

3X-2X GD SLT XD and Brown $0

1X GD SLT XDK-DK $13

1X GD SLT Brown $10.50

LG GD SLT XDK-XD $11

LG GD SLT Brown $9

Dirt, Did you notice that at last weeks FH sale they separated XXL and Xlg good slts into heavies and semi's separately, that's new.

Ack is gonna become a coyote trapper now.

And why not? He can't make any money trapping beavers with you!

No I didn't look at the May Catalog. That would be proper to sort them that way IMO. Since SLT's are Shearable beaver according to the auctions( if they are HVY or SEMI) it would make sense to separate them that way for buyers looking for shearable beaver.

I’m skeptical about any beaver market until I see actual sale results. You can cherry pick all you want but I still haven’t seen beaver worth putting up at today’s market

A lot of trappers would agree with you Blackhammer.
I still trap and put up beaver for fur,castor and bait for other furbearers and to keep my trapping trails from flooding out.
I enjoy putting up beaver,but would not trap them hard(big numbers) until the price goes up some.Skinning a pile of beaver day after day wears on a trapper after a month or so.

Beaver are not necessarily worth the effort to catch them for a profit yet. Rest assured though that day will come, upward movement in price is a good thing after five years of decreasing prices. Shearable beaver has done to well at retail not to have demand, it's ranch mink prices at retail that affect the price of most consumers purchases. I will guess that good quality Northern beaver will see a steady small increase with each sale, flatter long hair beaver, I have no idea.

To much processing work is what make it not worth it an unless catch lot beaver, not worth it, if not for caster prices , definately not,meduim beaver at $3.50, before commision toke out, in last nafa sale, trap a few for fun hopefully in fall , along with coon is what do

Beaver may not be worth a lot but in my neck of the woods if you're trapping parcels with water and NOT trapping beaver, you won't be trapping there long!!!!

Worrying over the auction house sales dont make trapping more fun either.

Sounds like we are going to lose the" sell the carcass to mink ranchers" market soon.

That’s fox ranchers, dirt. And that market is too small anyway.

The market to sell anything to mink ranchers has plummeted already.

Btw, how many cents per pound is anyone selling their beaver meat for?

Mink99 the carcusses are sold by if it takes two hands to lift=20$, and grunt with one hand =15$, one in each hand =10$ each. Helps when you have a spring bear season;
and a lazy guide service to sell to.

Guess that trappers aren’t the only ones to try and utilize carcasses.

"Btw, how many cents per pound is anyone selling their beaver meat for?"

Checking out your options?

No. I can get turkey, chicken, fish, liver all a lot cheaper.

I don't know? Might be able to get it for 5 to 10 cents a pound or free from hobby trappers? When my dog eats it, his fur gets real silky and shines.