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Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:57 pm to Festus
When I was younger and lived in the dirty dell (2000), you could get live for $0.49 per lb and boiled for $0.99. Wasn't that long ago if you think about it.
Gas was under a dollar then also
Gas was under a dollar then also
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:58 pm to Scoop
I got 4 sacks last weekend for $2.65.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 6:58 pm to tgrbaitn08
I figured that but answered for those that do believe that happens
Posted on 3/18/15 at 7:01 pm to yellowfin
I read a thread on the OB the other night where someone accused yall of doing that.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 7:02 pm to tgrbaitn08
Someone even said farmers should be thrown in jail for it
Posted on 3/18/15 at 7:04 pm to notiger1997
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They aren't even catching spillway crawfish yet
I posted in a couple threads this week about this.
I was at my camp in Pigeon this past weekend and the crawfishermen were out in full force. I played pool with a few in the bar down the road Friday night and they were pulling them in by the boatload. Belle River and Pigeon landings were both chock full of flat bottom boat trailers Sat and Sun.
Posted on 3/18/15 at 7:08 pm to shawnlsu
Yeah but they are catching crawfish the size of my little finger in the spillway right now.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 8:08 am to tgrbaitn08
Ah, gotcha. I didnt see any back at the landing to see what they were catching. I guess they were all excited for nothing.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 8:16 am to Scoop
Boiled crawfish is my favorite thing to eat. If I want them, I buy them. I don't think there has ever been a time when I asked how much they cost prior to buying them both live or boiled.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 8:22 am to LibraTiger
crawfish is one of those things I enjoy eating, but I'm sure as hell not going to pay a premium for them. Blows my mind people not only wait 45+ minutes for crawfish at Sammy's but pay what they typically charge early in the season.
Hell, at their early season prices, I'd prefer to boil shrimp.
Hell, at their early season prices, I'd prefer to boil shrimp.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 9:03 am to yellowfin
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Someone even said farmers should be thrown in jail for it
I think you should be thrown in jail. But not for dumping your crawfish. Hope this helps.
Also, we are getting them live and delivered to Birmingham for $4.99 right now. I thought that was decent compared to the last couple years. Haven't bought any yet this season, but I just got my burling gear out last weekend in anticipation. Still hoping price goes down some more, but the guy still has to buy them, ice them and haul them up here.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 9:06 am to yellowfin
I picked some up from Bucks last night. $28/5 lbs. and they were delicious.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 9:09 am to CadesCove
Red mountain crawfish in bham has $3 live and $3.50 boiled. At least they did last week.
This post was edited on 3/19/15 at 9:12 am
Posted on 3/19/15 at 9:30 am 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?
This is only done at the end of the season and they aren't dunmped into the same pond rather the pond they will be using next year. A lot of crawfisherman rotate ponds every year so when the price falls to far they stock up next year's pond.
The problem these days are from almost everything everyone in here has said. Mostly the fact that you can now get crawfish all the way to Midland TX. Also people are eating more crawfish more often. Before you didn't have a crawfish restaurant on every street and people didn't typically eat crawfish except on Friday's and Saturdays. Now you pass these places on a Tuesday and they are packed.
The prices are set by the whole-sellers. The problem are there are only a hand full of them. They at talk every day and set a price so they don't undercut each other (granted larger crawfish will still get the farmer .10-.15 cents more a pound). People like Troy Landry (D&M Crawfish) control the prices. He buys crawfish from Eunice to Pierre Port. He is so big that he can damn near set the price himself. The reason he is so big is because he is loyal to his farmers. If you sell to Troy he will buy your crawfish every day you run. Other middle men will cut farmers off later in the season when the catch is high and the demand is low. Troy won't because any extra he has he send to his peeling plant so there is no waste in what he buys. (He may tell you not to run some days but if you run your field he will buy them).
As long as people are buying them though and restaurants are selling out the price won't move much until the catch really goes up. Still then though now a days there is a much high price floor than before because of Walmart and other big stores that now carry crawfish. They won't start buying crawfish tails until the per-pound live price hits ~$1.75 wholesale (not sure the exact price but somewhere around $60-70 a sack). Once that price is hit than Walmart starts buying from 2 peeling plants they have contracts with (one is D&M). Once Walmart starts buying it adds another demand on the crawfish and that is another reason why the price stays higher longer these days.
The other thing is the Basin. If water levels are right the Basin fisherman can flood the market with crawfish which drives the price down quite a bit.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 9:39 am to tgrbaitn08
quote:Therein lies one of the thousand factors that is the mystery of crawfish pricing.
Yeah but they are catching crawfish the size of my little finger in the spillway right now.
Tourist in La don't know the difference between small and large crawfish. In NOLA and Laffy, the tourist idiots will pay $30 for a five pound order of pinky sized crawfish and whoop and holler! Makes it bad for the rest of us.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 9:40 am to Throbinhood
That was good info. Thanks.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 9:45 am to Janky
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I picked some up from Bucks last night. $28/5 lbs. and they were delicious.
That's a good friend of mine, my neighbor bought 70 lbs boiled from them last weekend and said they were some of the best they've had.
Posted on 3/19/15 at 9:46 am to yellowfin
Speaking of, Rouge was asking about your buddy in Broussard with the large/select. He email you?
Posted on 3/19/15 at 9:47 am to Count Chocula
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Speaking of, Rouge was asking about your buddy in Broussard with the large/select. He email you?
No but it was Buck's I was talking about
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