re: LSU Agcenter Specialist: "2024 expected to be one of the worst crawfish seasons on record"

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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

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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.