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Editor’s Call: Market Adjustment
Fur prices have dropped, but it’s not the end of the world The 2013-14 trapping season hadn’t even started before the gloom-and-doomers started griping about fur prices falling off from last season’s...
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Fur Market Report: Prices Expected to Decline Further
This is an excerpt from Trapper & Predator Caller‘s June-July 2014 Fur Market Report. By Serge Lariviére Let’s face it: We are on a down wave in the fur market. On the radar? Expect further...
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Price Averages From Latest Fur Auctions Released
North American Fur Auctions and Fur Harvesters Auction held fur sales in recent weeks. The results of the auctions are listed below. NAFA Wild Fur Sale — May 19 to May 21, 2014 FHA Wild Fur Sale —...
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Results in From FHA’s Final Fur Sale of 2014
Fur Harvesters Auction held their final sale of 2014 on Saturday, June 21. The auction results are below:
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Fur Market Report: The Fur Market Bubble Has Burst
Some experts say the steep drop in average prices from 2013 to 2014 was unprecedented By Serge Lariviére This is an excerpt from Trapper & Predator Caller‘s August 2014 Fur Market Report. The...
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Fur Market Report: Another Tough Selling Season Expected
This is an excerpt from Trapper & Predator Caller‘s September 2014 Fur Market Report. By Serge Lariviére What should we expect to see in the coming year for fur prices? Well, although it is too...
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Fur Market Report: Market Drop Tough on Everyone
This is an excerpt from Trapper & Predator Caller’s October 2014 Fur Market Report. By Serge Lariviére Summer marks a lull in the fur business, and nothing has really changed, at least nothing for...
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Fur Market Report: Signs of Hope
This is an excerpt from Trapper & Predator Caller’s November 2014 Fur Market Report. By Serge Lariviére As this issue hits the press, trappers across the U.S. and Canada will be at the very edge...
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Fur Market Report: Signs Point Toward Slight Uptick
Conditions look favorable for the fur market heading into first international sales of the season This is an excerpt from Trapper & Predator Caller’s December 2014 Fur Market Report. By Serge...
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Fur Market Report: Selling Season About to Start
This is an excerpt from Trapper & Predator Caller’s January 2015 Fur Market Report. By Serge Lariviére No large international sales have occurred for this new selling season yet, and honestly,...
View ArticleMarch 2016 Fur Market Report
By Serge Lariviére This is going to be one tough season, and if you have not yet started to complain about fur prices, do not worry, you will get lots of opportunities. We are simply in one of the...
View ArticleA Productive Season: There are trapline profits beyond dollars and cents
By Jim Spencer Except for spring beaver and rat trapping, mostly in the northern states and Canadian provinces, we’ve pretty much wrapped up another season—the worst one, price-wise, most living...
View ArticleFebruary 2017 Fur Market Report
By Serge Lariviére This is the last report of speculation before the big fur sales start. Indeed, January is already going to see some fur selling, and starting January 9, 2017, Kopenhagen Furs will...
View ArticleCountry Buyer Blues: The Fur Industry Keeps Evolving
By Jim Spencer Finally, this ongoing fur market slump is showing signs of easing. Some of the signs are political, some are economic, and some are…well, let’s just say that nothing in the fur market...
View ArticleShipped & Sold: a step-by-step guide to selling your fur at an auction
BY JASON HOUSER I was a lot like most new trappers many years ago when I only sold my furs to the local country buyer. It was a simple process. They would buy about all my fur, and he did … [Read More]...
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June Fur Market Report: International buyers give fur market a big boost
By Serge Lariviére For many people in the industry, what is going to happen in May and June will be the fulfillment of many predictions. If you have been following the markets in the past two years,...
View ArticleMaking the Best of a Low Fur-Market Season
BY JIM SPENCER Like most of our fellow trappers, my wife Jill and I didn’t set any records on the trapline last season, neither in terms of effort or results. Still, we didn’t just sit it out. Even...
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How Not to Kill a Skunk
A youthful quest to catch the rarest of fragrant furbearers By Jim Spencer Adult trappers, for the most part, are none too thrilled when they catch a skunk. But to a 12-year-old kid like I was in...
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Smoke Your Hide
With some egg yolk and a smoky fire, you can tan your fur the old fashioned way By Cody Assmann The fur forecast for the winter of 2016 wasn’t looking good. Prior to the opening of the trapping season...
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August 2017 Fur Market Report
From East to West, Coyotes Are Hot Parka market drives huge demand for song dogs By Serge Lariviére Since my last report in the June/July issue of Trapper and Predator Caller, two major wild fur sales...
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