You can post and drive at the same time? Can you make a grilled cheese sandwich at the same time? I think I have followed you down the road before.

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This was on Facebook, hopefully it is ok to share and post here

Thanks Guy.

Thanks for the update.

well, thats better than what all the liars have been telling us for the last 3 months!!!

I don't think they're liars. Look at some of the early eastern sale results. Idaho gets a bunch of craft buyers which really helps out. My bet is 2/3rds of the fur sold was for the craft market. Maybe more.

Craft market for sure on items like skunk and otter. Those prices are nice for the folks that had those pelts at the sale. But it can give false hope to those that haven’t sold yet.

18 otter is nothing. What if it were 180. Or 1800? I bet FH doesn’t see that average at their March sale.

Good reason to not send your fur where buyers get the volume discount.

Unfortunately I believe wissmiss is correct. We’ll see.

If I were Rusty I would turn my phone off after I got home from the sale until numbers were done. Absolutely no reason for some idiots to start calling and texting at 5am. You ain't getting paid any quicker, and if you can't wait a few hours to see what the finals were then how do you have enough patience to trap in the first place?

If I were Rusty I would turn my phone off

There, Sneaky, I fixed it for you.

No Red Fox, Idaho usually has some really nice fox.

Fairly high mink prices compared to much of the country.

......thats is the price i paid for castor there (green) dried castor was alittle better but i didnt buy it ...coyote average was 27 i paid 177.11 for top coyote so it works both ways lol

It is not always easy to decipher a sales posted results.
For example, coyotes averaged higher than what has been getting paid. The buyer that bought more than half the coyotes is a craft buyer. Not an international market.

Top coyote. Montana pale. That would have cost you a wee bit more than $177 just a couple years ago lol

January 2022:

Badger 44 $9.53 $58.17 98%
Beaver 173 $18.84 $37.19 100%
Bobcat 94 $261 $1,228 98%
Castor 51.96 lbs $69 $87.28 47%
Coyote 1178 $36.00 $86.67 100%
Ermine 141 $3.12 $4.00 100%
Fisher 14 $24.60 $39.82 100%
Cross Fox 9 $78.78 $86.67 100%
Red Fox 337 $16.08 $52.50 86%
Marten 117 $35.00 $53.17 100%
Mink 86 $9.88 $20.29 100%
Muskrat 476 $3.77 $5.56 100%
Otter 53 $30.73 $50.25 100%
Raccoon 97 $10.81 $12.99 100%
Skunk 63 $8.60 $13.06 100%

What's the deal with mink being as high as it was, given what they have been. Less than a 100 pelts so maybe some specific end user butt hat was sort of surprise.

Any guess on the breakdown between fur dealers buying to push it further up the supply chain AND end user specialty folks, such as getting hides tanned to sell to tourists or making things from the fur...?