Was wonder if anyone has sold to Groenewold in the past few weeks to see how the increase in beaver and otter was that he was talking about and how much he is paying for castor .

I guess nobody has sold to him .

I sold some green beaver to Groeny. $12 top for blanket.

Im curious too....

Are many buyer and or sellers waiting with an auction now about 3 weeks away? There could be a host of reasons but this past season we have seen posted the least amount of fur and sales I have ever seen and I have been on this sight for about 21 years.

Bryce

I've noticed that to, but think the main reason is the negative vibe if you do post sales results. No one is proud of $1.87 averages, or getting blasted for putting more cheap fur in the pipeline.

Yep, I sold some this year (not Groeny) way cheaper than I wanted to. Kicked myself afterwards and vowed to ship it to the auction from now on. That way more than one buyer will look at it.

I'm taking some fur to him today.

Please post amd ask him about castor.

Let us know how you did . He passes through here at the end of the month so hopefully the prices won’t fall off to bad .

I see has some April routes posted for Iowa, none within 150 miles here at least , maybe more beaver in those areas , he has bought in past ?

14 green beaver. 6 at 12.00, 7 at 6.00 and 1 at 2.
4 green coon. 1 at 4.00, 2 at 2.00, 1 at 1.00
17 dry coon. 4 a 8.00, 9 at 5.00, 4 at .50
1 green otter at 25.00
25 dry fall rats. 7 at 4.00, 14 at 2.75, 4 at 1.50
castor 60.00 per lb.

I was pleased with the beaver and otter prices, not so pleased with coon and rats.
beaver and rats were all caught first 2 weeks of season. Coon after Thanksgiving.
I'm glad I decided to not go after coon much this year. I've never sold .50 finished coon before
and never will again.

I would finish them, that way if not like price, take back, pretty hard refreeze 50 coon at once unless some big walk in freezer, stuff not even worth bother with at all unless everything finish, those prices are similar to 5 weeks ago today for what I got, about $6.70 average on finish coon, I wasn't happy with rat an mink prices either , but sold , after then an lately, see higher averages at auctions on mink an rats, mo auction had $4.12 average on finish rats, markets have supposed improve slightly in last cpl months but extremely low compare to inflation an times nowadays, $20 bucks nowadays is like few pennies in today's world

I sold a batch to a country buyer this morning. Not groenwold, but still fur prices. All green...


$5 for beavers
$23 for otters
$1 for nutrias

$60/lb for dried castor
$30/lb for green castor

With the way the market Is I think you did Ok on the rats and coon.

I don’t think you did to bad , did anybody say what they got for their finished beaver?

I didn't see any finished beaver sell. Mine were all fall mostly hatter beaver. I doubt that it would have been worth my time to finish them.

After Thanksgiving the coon should have been white leathered, but you don't have big coon pups by then in your area, and the coon market is extra bad at this time. The rats caught at the beginning of the season were early fur and you got a good price for early fall rats. There was a time when trappers concentrated their efforts on prime fur. Today most state wildlife agencies open seasons to early and close them to late. Their excuse for this is to increase the harvest of animals that cause damage or to provide "opportunity" without regard to fur quality, and most government employees have no idea of fur quality (this doesn't include all government employees) but most. So the gist of this post is.......just because the season is open, it does not mean the fur is good.

You never know what's going to happen with the price of fur caught in November and sold in March.
I've had some years when my fall rats brought good money. This wasn't one of them. I got paid to trap the beaver by
the landowners and ran a rat line along the way to pay the gas expense. In a normal year I usually hammer the coon.
Glad I didn't this season. It was a time to just catch a little fur and enjoy the outdoors. It's the least amount of fur that I've sold in
over 50 years but I still enjoyed every minute of and am not done yet. Going after some spring beaver and otter next week.

$4-$8 more finished, depends, probly $10-$11 finish on bunch on average, I wouldn't take less then 10 average , green fur not worth squat