Doesn't take an expert to declare that fox sale as horrid...

It appears that about 3% of the heavy and semi-heavy reds sold on the sale, I didn't factor in the flats. This was the first section.

1 out of 28 fox sold. Hopefully some go private treaty

Four of my Texas greys sold. $21.50 average on the four.

Today wasn't a day for selling fox, ranch or otherwise. The grade was terrible on both in my opinion.

Ranch mink is as bad as expected.

4 reds, zero sold

Shipped two reds one sold for 22. Rest getting tan for sale. Sold 12 grays out of a 130 for 22 and 20 each. Ain't this about as much fun as eating cold watermelon on a hot day.

Size 3-0, labeled brown male mink for $32. I see where this is headed for the otter sale.

First two days of wild fur report:

http://www.nafa.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2018-05-14-WF1.pdf

Skunks and badgers look promising. lol

I wonder if wild mink is going to hold or rise.Last NAFA sale,wild mink was up.It depends on which buyers show up for the sale.
Also the later sale is invariable a poorer wild mink collection.It will be interesting to see how that market goes if the Italians show up.

Interesting all wild quantities for Monday and Tues. match those published last Friday May 11 in the order of sale except wolf. Order of sale has 788 and above report has 1202. What’s with that?

Where's Jim Gibb.He usually follows the sales pretty close and if he don't know something he can usually find out.He might be able to answer your wolf question Frank.

There were 788 wolves offered in the auction room. As per the catalog listing.

The rest were offered via some sort of sealed bid/private Treaty sale. Not sure exactly how it worked but one of the buyers therebsaid it was rather strange.

I wasn't there, so not sure what to make of it.

Maybe one of the fur marketing boards from the north.Gov't pays the trappers up front a guaranteed price,then they market all the fur under one label.But I thought all those boards used FHA under contract.

Id be happy to sale one that brings ten or more im sad to say! With the population being so low here I hate killing them for that cheap

Ok question----I had a couple of reds (semi) that sold at $30. Now that currently is the "Top Lot" sold on the floor. If the reds in the lot numbers above it sell in private treaty for more money are those now the "Top Lot" reds ?

"Last Receiving Dates 2018 – Europe (Coming Soon)"


How is NAFA selling 5 or 6 Million Non North American produced ranch mink affecting your prices?

NAFA has to take on these European mink in order to keep up with the other auction houses numbers wise. As far as affecting prices it may make the North American mink lose some of the prestige it had by mixing the two. Problem is those Europeans are starting to produce mink that are just as good as this continents mink with bigger size.

I wasn’t sure our fur would make this sale. The results were mixed. But one pelt REALLY surprised us. Due an untimely death in the family which screwed up trapping season for me, We only had one (scruffy) mid October coyote. I didn’t expect it would go over $15 locally. And even then it would only happen if the local buyer was blind and had numb fingers. It brought $44 at NAFA! Holy buckets, Batman, I never envisioned that. Nor the fact that two cherry red December fox wouldn’t sell. This auction pretty much guarantees where our coyotes will go next year. And while I know flukes happen and I could have gotten hosed, this a good sign for the direction some of our fur is going in the future.