Castor Buyers?

Who's buying and what are they paying? Thanks!

Check with Don Wolf.

Last weekend at the Oregon sale, the price was close to $80.00 per pound on good clean castor.

Don paid me 80 straight run.

Castor is a hot commodity right now,and rising in price.An extra $10 cd about for each beaver caught all in.$55/lb sounds quite low.

Thanks Horse Creek. I got in a hurry and forgot my manners.

$80 sounds good enough, thanks you guys!

How many beavers does it take to make a pound?

Depends on size of beaver and time of year. Spring beaver doesn't take as many as fall/winter beaver, at least in the North

It varies.I generally just count my castors to figure the avg.
Last year I sold 120 castors and recieved just under $1200 bucks.I forget what the weight was but I think at that time it was around 90/lb.
Thats Canuck dollars.

$80.00 a pound straight run at the Herkimer, NY Auction on February 1st.

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Not many good full castors here mostly shells had. 51 pounder was not impressed with the sacks.

Just talked to Don. He's still buying.

Trevor Barnes will buy it at a fair price. Can't say exactly what he is offering today but I got 26 buck for 5 oz a few weeks ago. Look up Barnes hide and fur and call him.

Don’t want to spoil this thread but I heard from a good source of 300 pounds getting sold for $110 American dollars plus packing and shipping from Canada. So if you shop around you may get a better price. I also saw 7 pounds sold for $60 Canadian all grades in to a buyer. I guess it all depends on where you market your castor. Same goes for fur.

Just sold 4 pounds to Miller Fur for 75 $ a pound.

Looks like it pays to shop around. Huge differences in price

Was it dried?

Dried four 4-5 days with fans running at 60-65 degrees. Then put in freezer.

Definitely not spoiling the thread sask, thanks.

One has to keep in mind that 300# perfectly dried, etc, is quite a prize for the larger buyer/exporter and therefore is worth more than 50-60 small-time deals with trappers where moisture levels likely need amended and so forth.

Thank you needed to know that detail on pricing

Castor is $80-$85 a pound for well taken care of straight run semi dry castor. Straight higher grade would be more, shells less.

Get ready it is all going to be cheaper very quickly, just got the word today.

What's the opposite of price gouging called? When buyers pay less for a commodity due to panic?

I see no reason the price of castor would go down, beaver still need to be trapped regardless of the value of their pelt or lack thereof.

I don't suppose you'll share where you heard that, huh? Castor was about the only thing I was going to trap beaver for this spring, and if that market tanks, I'll let the vermin chew on more trees I guess.

Short selling. It's what's causing gold and silver to go down in price noem people need to get money now when gbd market is uncertain and they're got bills due yesterday.

Wife said that she read where perfume industry in France is gonna stop making perfume and make hand sanitizer. They must have a good stockpile of alcohol

The buyer I sold to said what he buys goes into facial cream type products. If you've seen any type of tv or radio add, you've seen this product.

i'll put it in the freezer with the tails and skulls and fur for a rainy day.rains a lot here.

About 10 for green

Peej, my section of castor runs about 4-5 beaver to the lb. Colony beaver where the catch includes kits will be more like 8-10 beaver to the lb.

Ttt

I would like to hear more about this.

Everything else is tanking. Castor may follow.

Averaged $80/pound last weekend at the Idaho sale. I got $137 for a mere 24 ounces which comes to $91/pound. I believe the primary buyer at that sale goes by wallfur here on Tman if anyone wants to try to get ahold of him.

thank you 10 bands....very nice castor you had

Bunch of old woman panicking as usual. Buy some toilet paper,ammo and take your money out of the bank. Good grief

I am curious about that post because it sounded like he had some specific info.

After the last few days I would think that even buyers with solid orders are re-checking their buyers to make sure everything is green lights.

correct bev but all things subject to change fast....day to day basis

I feel for you guys that have your money out on the line waiting to see if the day to day situation helps or hurts. Must be hard for decision making when it comes to what you feel comfortable offering.

Straight run throughout the season, I figure about 7 beaver per pound

I sold 8 pounds about a month ago to a local buyer in Michigan for $70 straight run and there was a lot of junk.

Marty, if flights are restricted to where your markets are that may have an impact. Also the end user may be adjusting what they think they need if they're projecting a world wide economic slump coming on.

You read that wrong.




I was making light of someone not being able to see any reason that castor prices would be down.




Theres no sarcasm font.



The world is coming apart at the seams and anyone with any brains is taking precautions to survive.



Which includes not buying anything they dont need.



Big capital outlays seem a little risky right now.









But nooooo! The castor buyers are gouging.




Give me freaking break.

Ok, but what if my post was also sarcasm? Ha!

I like it then.

I and another trapper sold several pounds yesterday at $80.00 per pound.

Who'd you guys sell to?

bch has probably bought more castor than most everyone on here has seen over all his years of fur buying.

I believe he was referring to not being able to get castor into the UK where a vast majority of it is sent. If they can't get it to the consumer they are not going to pay as much, same as furs.

Whats best way to ship castor?
Ups ground?
In cardboard box packed with paper?

For shipping semi-dry castor it needs to be protected by plastic or it can dampen the box. If that happens USPS will discard your shipment into the hazmat box and you most likely will have lost your shipment. It has happened to me.

I sure do feel like a idiot. I never knew castor was so valuable and really got taken advantage of by a local around my area. Guy seemed like a good guy. No wonder he kept asking for my castor. He would trade me a small bottle of lure which hasn't caught a turtle for it. I gave him the castor out of 18 beaver for 1 small bottle of lure and some some new 330 triggers.

Better go talk to that guy buck. Face to face. Cough a lot.