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Post by TRAPPERBILL on Jan 25, 2012 14:41:19 GMT -6
I didnt get my furs put up in time for the Feb. sale. I have beaver, coon, rats, and fox. Do you think it is advisable to send them for the june sale or sell to a local buyer now? Thanks for any advice.
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Post by skunkedtrapper on Jan 25, 2012 22:22:51 GMT -6
If it were me I'd wait, especially with the beaver and muskrats the May sale seems to be a better one for them. The coon market doesn't sound promising so it probably doesn't matter. The fox would probably get better money in the Feb. sale, but I'm sure they will do fine in May.
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Post by thebeav2 on Jan 25, 2012 22:55:35 GMT -6
The May sale should do well. Well I hope so since I have a lot of rats designated for that sale.
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Post by Stef on Jan 26, 2012 9:40:55 GMT -6
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Post by mtcbrlatrap on Jan 26, 2012 10:41:42 GMT -6
Where you live you have a lot of pretty good options. As stated FHA is one and their Cambridge center is not too far away. You also have the May sale as well as several large buyers within about 50-75 miles of you such as Cumberland's, Wiebke's Lee (Steve's buyer) Jack Tauscheck (Spelling) from near WI Rapids and a host of others I am sure I am missing. From what I read and hear the rats, mink, fox, yote markets are going to hold well or advance for the better goods. Beaver may even sell OK if not better by recent standards. Coon could be the question mark we just don't know the interest in those at this time. If we are willing to sell coon cheap enough I am sure they will get sold. It is just a matter of how low are we willing to go.
If coon stay soft or hard to sell that will be a huge blow to the Midwest fur harvesters; as buyers will continue to put more money into fur that sells and has a market for good turn around. Not a lot of interest I am betting in slow turn over high storage and handling cost fur that is common. Much like what beaver have seen over the last decade or so.
Fun to talk about $18 rats, $1,000 cats etc. but we really need to have average income earners buying utilitarian furs again for our fur market to strengthen. If the developing world travels the same route as the USA then with less money in the hands of average income workers the demand for many of our wild fur species will be minimal or only at low enough prices to clear the markets. If it cost too much in China even to make money processing and marketing average coons then there needs to be another country that can do it for less. If China is processing 30-40 million ranch fur pelts per year I don't see them getting real interested in .5-1.0 million average coons with slow turn around and low profit margins.
We are seeing he change in Russia now to as the successful capitalist want lynx, cats, ranch mink, sable, female fisher, white bellied yotes but not ordinary fur and those that are not successful yet with capitalism don't have the money.
Unfortunately for most countries oil can be profitable, very profitable but by the nature of the beast it does not employee many workers in comparison to the revenue it generates.
Bryce
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