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Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:19 pm to ReauxlTide222
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How many pounds is a solid meal if you're hungry?
I would say 5 lbs. is the generic go to.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:21 pm to Festus
I was offered crawfish for $8 a pound on Monday in a North Texas eatery. I just laughed and told the waitress to tell the owner I hope he likes eating lots of crawfish 'cause I didn' t think there were enough people stupid enough to pay that.
BTW - aging myself, but I can remember paying $0.25 per pound by the burlap sack full.
BTW - aging myself, but I can remember paying $0.25 per pound by the burlap sack full.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:22 pm to HubbaBubba
quote:Hell, I remember uptown bars giving them away for free with pitchers.
aging myself, but I can remember paying $0.25 per pound
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:22 pm to Scoop
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Are the farmers cutting supply and leaving them in the ponds and traps when the prices go down?
I basically just want to know who the a-hole is.
I was hoping we go under $4 this season cooked in NW La.
For our farm, 100% NO! We're not catching much at all ... and fwiw, the buyer that we sell to is told the price from the wholesaler. Always has been how it works in our area. Farmers have tried not fishing to "protest" and it never has helped. Farmers are at the mercy of the buyer who is at the mercy of the wholesaler ... not sure after that.
At least this is how it is in my area.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:25 pm to HubbaBubba
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I was offered crawfish for $8 a pound on Monday in a North Texas eatery. I just laughed and told the waitress to tell the owner I hope he likes eating lots of crawfish 'cause I didn' t think there were enough people stupid enough to pay that.
Had it a few years ago in Houston, I think they were charging $7.99 pound at the restaurant. People were buying it like it was going out of style. They sell as much as they cook. It's crazy.
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BTW - aging myself, but I can remember paying $0.25 per pound by the burlap sack full.
I remember the same, back in the 70's. It was truly considered a cheap meal, just a lot of work to prepare. But the only people eating them were S. La. natives.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:25 pm to Festus
Its crazy. I mean literally every little bar around where I live here in the Northeast area has them and they arent cheap but people eat the shite out of them.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:27 pm to Scoop
Not enough crawfish to go around = price is gonna go up
Too many crawfish and the market get choked up = price is gonna drop
Really as simple as that for farmer price, retailers will increase thier margins as the season gets moving.
Too many crawfish and the market get choked up = price is gonna drop
Really as simple as that for farmer price, retailers will increase thier margins as the season gets moving.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:30 pm to yellowfin
What about when the farmers dump their crop back into the ponds to avoid having to sell so they can raise the price by reducing the supply?
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:32 pm to tiger91
a place we sell tail meat to, tried the chinese stuff one time, when mudbug prices skyrocketed, and he told me the shite was garbage. Never again.
I know the chinese aren't great with healthy conditions for their farms, especially for shite like tilapia, but how do they get it past the FDA???
I know they are allowed to ship basa(asian catfish), without the guidelines the American catfish farmers have to follow. It's rediculous how bad our govt agencies will frick the american farmers, to allow a garbage product from China to frick the market.
I know the chinese aren't great with healthy conditions for their farms, especially for shite like tilapia, but how do they get it past the FDA???
I know they are allowed to ship basa(asian catfish), without the guidelines the American catfish farmers have to follow. It's rediculous how bad our govt agencies will frick the american farmers, to allow a garbage product from China to frick the market.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:37 pm to tgrbaitn08
Doesn't happen
Later in season they'll quit running if it's not profitable
As much as the end consumer bitches it's nothing compared to the bitching at each other up and down the supply chain
Later in season they'll quit running if it's not profitable
As much as the end consumer bitches it's nothing compared to the bitching at each other up and down the supply chain
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:37 pm to yellowfin
It really sucks. From what I can tell, the market is going to sustain $5 a pound and that is gonna be the new baseline for a good year with low gas prices. It is gonna be the new starting point.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:40 pm to tgrbaitn08
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What about when the farmers dump their crop back into the ponds to avoid having to sell so they can raise the price by reducing the supply?
I honestly think that is just a bunch of paranoid bs...there is no way you can make me believe that a crawfish farmer or group of crawfish farmers could affect the global crawfish market...
fact is, if I were a crawfish farmer and worked my arse off for two days baiting and running traps to get crawfish, there is no damn way I would be dumping them back into the ponds...if you have already put the expenses into producing a product, you sell it any time you have a chance...
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:41 pm to tgrbaitn08
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What about when the farmers dump their crop back into the ponds to avoid having to sell so they can raise the price by reducing the supply?
I know no one that does this. It's way too much work to catch just to re-dump. As my husband tends to the rice crop he hires someone to crawfish .. yeah, we're not paying someone to catch/dump/re-catch ...
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:42 pm to Scoop
Supply can't keep up with demand because there's only so much land that we can crawfish(plus that land is being bought up and develop every day)
$5 a pound boiled is pretty good for up there. I've never sold them less than that in the middle of crawfish country
$5 a pound boiled is pretty good for up there. I've never sold them less than that in the middle of crawfish country
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:42 pm to Spankum
You got it right Spankum.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:48 pm to animalcracker
I saw $6.99/lb a few weeks ago in Baytown.
Oh, and they were live.
Oh, and they were live.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:49 pm to tiger91
That and it also makes absolutely zero sense for one farmer to do that strategy on his own.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:50 pm to Scoop
Anything that causes there to be fewer crawfish than people want to buy will cause the price to go up.
High demand? price goes up
cold weather? crawfish stay small and out of the traps, price goes up
too wet? crawfish stay out of the traps
too dry? ponds dry up and crawfish die
tropical cyclone? pushes salt water into ponds killing crawfish
lent? price goes up
easter? price goes up
mother's day? price goes up
too late in the summer? no one's buying so producer's don't sell as much to keep prices high
High demand? price goes up
cold weather? crawfish stay small and out of the traps, price goes up
too wet? crawfish stay out of the traps
too dry? ponds dry up and crawfish die
tropical cyclone? pushes salt water into ponds killing crawfish
lent? price goes up
easter? price goes up
mother's day? price goes up
too late in the summer? no one's buying so producer's don't sell as much to keep prices high
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:56 pm to slackster
quote:and they probably sold out.
I saw $6.99/lb a few weeks ago in Baytown.
Oh, and they were live.
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