As a Veteran of 50 plus years marketing fur I would have to say in all honesty that neither NAFA or FHA actually give a rats arse about the North American Trapper Canadian or US I have used both houses since the early seventies and also have sold thousands of skins in New York when the Fur District was thriving and my evaluation of Both of these facilities is they don't put up fur properly! The Market is the Market and disputing prices levels is nonsense, the crux of the matter for us is where they put my skins! I know fur and I now fur well, and the put up and offering at each of the Major Houses is at best Sad and at worst criminal! Year after Year I try to Market goods in several different outlets for the simply fact that from time to time you can greatly benefit from a sudden Market swing whether your goods were graded properly or not! What I want is competent, skilled people with actual knowlage and skill lotting my goods, the price is inconsequential! The put up at both places today is a nightmare and that is the deal breaker!I hear the story every time I ask that prices are so low it makes no sense to fine grade articles BS!As a harvester I want my fur graded properly each species each time, I don't care if there is a dime difference in grade I want my skins graded right! Perhaps if the level of put up had not dropped in the last few years purchasers would be more willing to raise levels on grades that they know are clean, now they know they are buying a pendulum swing in each string, what is the incentive to compete! I don't know, perhaps I'm just a jaded, cranky old man who longs for days gone bye but something is not right here beyond our shrinking, volatile market!

It's a good thing the value of the US dollar has dropped 10 percent or so from this time last year it would have really been a blood bath

My comment is about the expectation, if the market is going south how can you expect it to go north just because it was like that last year?

LOL, Dirt, not many people believe the propaganda.

For example: I quote a legend. "Fur prices up 50%.That is quite encouraging."