Fur Prices

This has been building up for the last few years......glad to see the prices getting back to where a fella can make some cash.

 

Why is this happening. I don't know that much about the fur trading business. Neil Olson kept his secrets from me.

 

Over the last few years we have seen more and more eastern block countries and the Russians purchasing more and more of the furs. None of the trappers I know are holding furs back. Now we have the Asian markets competing against the Eastern Europeans. All of them want to look like rich Americans/Europeans. As their countries grow more affluent and Americanized. You know we won the Cold War.......but they buy the furs.

 

Okay, thanks! I wonder do these countries support or prohibit trapping and hunting?

 

The countries are very poor in the rural areas...its the neuvo-rich of the fashionable cities that are after the fur. Most of these countries don't allow "the right to keep and bear arms"........but they are slowly turning away from communism and oppressive regimes. They are becoming more free enterprise and commercial.

 

Let me get my license back...been a couple years so I have to take the trappers course. Went from trapping to Coyote hunting.......made more on the yotes per fur hour. Selling most of them green to a fella in Patten. Not to mention the added 10/12 for coons I accidentally called, and some foxes, at 15.00+. Would love to trap again........

 

Thats great that prices are going to be up this year. I dont trap any more but neighbor does. He caught over 200 beaver and 26 otter. Atleast he'll make some money for all the time he puts into trapping.

 

My first post here.
The reason fur has been down the past few years was the European Country has had mild winters. This year in Siberia alone it has been the coldest on records.
The climb was helped by the Asian market as they have figured out how to work with furs.
John Porter