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re: LSU Agcenter Specialist: "2024 expected to be one of the worst crawfish seasons on record"
Posted on 1/21/24 at 8:42 am to Yukon7
Posted on 1/21/24 at 8:42 am to Yukon7
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This is just a fact of life, it occurs almost every year and they need to quit using it as an excuse.
Since when do sub-20° freezes occur "almost every year" in South Louisiana?
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Posted on 1/21/24 at 8:49 am to BurningHeart
Looks like blue crab and shrimp it’ll be this year
Posted on 1/21/24 at 8:52 am to BurningHeart
I have a couple podnas with ponds in Lafourche, they actually looking pretty good right now. They going to be making bank this season.
With that said, I rather shrimp anyway.
With that said, I rather shrimp anyway.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 9:27 am to Cowboyfan89
As you can see in below graphic, it happens quite often. And it looks as if recent years have had warmer low temps than history has shown.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 10:23 am to ForeverEllisHugh
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I wonder if that means this season will last longer
Depends. Some farmers will need to pull traps to get things ready for the next planting season.
My husband hasn’t seen a crawfish .. and they’ve got lots of traps out. I asked yesterday about the outlook and he reminded me that we’ve had a year or two with really late crawfish.
I don’t know if we’ve ever had a year in 26 years with NONE. Bad years yes but I don’t recall a year with NONE.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 10:52 am to tiger91
We usually have early crawfish but that didn't materialize at all this season. Very few people in my area fishing so far and these are mostly permanent ponds as we are not in the rice belt.
There will be an increase in catch later this spring as the young of the year crop matures, but growing conditions are almost opposite from being ideal this season so far.
What I think most people fail to understand is the impact that low availability of seed crawfish and high prices will have on next season and the future of the crawfish market. It's not a given that crawfish populations and farmed acreage will rebound in one season without farms able to afford to restock.
There will be an increase in catch later this spring as the young of the year crop matures, but growing conditions are almost opposite from being ideal this season so far.
What I think most people fail to understand is the impact that low availability of seed crawfish and high prices will have on next season and the future of the crawfish market. It's not a given that crawfish populations and farmed acreage will rebound in one season without farms able to afford to restock.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 11:02 am to BurningHeart
Who cares? Just eat steak.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 11:08 am to ForeverEllisHugh
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I wonder if that means this season will last longer - I was pretty sad they couldn’t make it a couple of more weeks with LSU in Omaha last year
It could have easily lasted that long last season for some of us except for the low market price given to farmers and fishermen and the plentiful catch that people conveniently fail to remember in OT crawfish price threads.
Weeks BEFORE HOLY WEEK, buyers quit buying but one day a week or put their producers on very limited sack counts while some of the mega farms continued to flood the market with crawfish. The price dropped to almost post-Easter prices damn near in the middle of Lent which is unheard of.
Many farmers, myself included had to shut down early due to this market anomaly but the wild caught crawfish continued to supply even with poor pricing and high break even costs. There was plenty of crawfish in May and June last year baw but you would have had to buy basin sacks and after the ponds stopped and the price had recovered only modestly.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 11:28 am to TIGRLEE
Thanks, Biden!
Clay Higgins warned us he would pull this...
Clay Higgins warned us he would pull this...
Posted on 1/21/24 at 11:45 am to BurningHeart
Better start saving baws for a down payment on crawfish..."
Saving baws for a down payment is just weird.
Saving baws for a down payment is just weird.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 11:53 am to BurningHeart
Will give handjobs for crawfish
Posted on 1/21/24 at 12:21 pm to TIGRLEE
quote:Its amazing how ignorant some of y’all are
Same ole shite
I fish the spillway. This year is so far from “same ole shite”.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 1:02 pm to lsupride87
Nah it’s pretty much same ole shite
Posted on 1/21/24 at 1:07 pm to Cowboyfan89
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Since when do sub-20° freezes occur "almost every year" in South Louisiana?
Temps in the 20s are common, happening pretty much every year. Temps in the low 20s are fairly common, and sub-20° temps occur in around a third of Winters (or, at least in Dec/Jan). This is using the Baton Rouge record back to 1979.
This post was edited on 1/21/24 at 1:08 pm
Posted on 1/21/24 at 1:09 pm to lsupride87
It’s really not amazing anymore on here.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 1:10 pm to LegendInMyMind
How often do temps in the sub 30s come after far below normal rain summers with far hotter than normal summers as well
Posted on 1/21/24 at 1:12 pm to Yukon7
The freeze hurts the crawfish for about a week. They basically just stay still until the water warms up. That usually takes about a week. The real problem for the crawfish industry is the drought. Which most of us all realize.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 1:14 pm to lsupride87
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How often do temps in the sub 30s come after far below normal rain summers with far hotter than normal summers as well
I don't care enough to track all that down.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 1:15 pm to BurningHeart
They would have more than enough crawfish for Louisianans, but they now export a very large percentage of crawfish out to other states like Texas.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 1:16 pm to ForeverEllisHugh
Basically the season is looking like it’s 2 months later than usual which could very well extend well into July, which means we should have crawfish during the CWS as long as the crawfish show up like I hope they will soon.
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