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re: So how high are crawfish prices going to be?
Posted on 1/6/12 at 12:36 pm to Croacka
Posted on 1/6/12 at 12:36 pm to Croacka
I think it is kinda wrond. We should be able to get crawfish cheaper here. I don't want to hear about free market crap. For years Louisiana crawfish farmers complianed about cheaper crawfish from over seas and bad seasons. They aksed and got help from this state and the government here. That is all of our tax money. Yet the second they can make a bigger buck in another state, they jump on it. If they want to screw us for free market, then stop complaining about cheaper chinese crawfish available here. Our state has some of the tuffest laws against bringing in seafood from out the state. That is because of all the crying the seafood industry did. Now, after they get there way, they do as they please. That isn't free market, that is greed.
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Posted on 1/6/12 at 12:49 pm to CrocsWithSocks
It's January there is not alot of crawfish being caught statewide right now. No farmer that is running his ponds is holding any crawfish back at 3.00 a lb. Some people want to eat crawfish and dont care what they cost when crawfish start running the price will fall. Everything food related is up why would crawfish be any different. Farmers who crawfish are coming of one there best rice crops in years and are looking at the expense to raise crawfish real close right now. Alot of farmers are not running there fields now because it cost to much money to not catch anything. People who want cheap crawfish need the Spillway to come in this year and that will lower the price. But to think that expenses in rasing crawfish havent gone up over the last 3 years is crazy, that is why the price is going up. When people stop eating them at these high prices would cause a drop in price but we havent hit that celing yet. Landowners and farmers have to be able to make money with there land, thus the higher prices for crawfish.
Posted on 1/6/12 at 12:57 pm to gmrkr5
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. So while the farmers cry to us about bad harvests, people in Austin have no problem getting them for a buck a pound cheaper. Explain that
they have crawfish farms in Tx too
Posted on 1/6/12 at 1:04 pm to CrawfishKing
like most of what you said, but you kinda contradicted yourself here
So if the price is higher because of expenses all we need to do is not eat them at the high price and then the price will come down? How does that lower the expenses?
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But to think that expenses in rasing crawfish havent gone up over the last 3 years is crazy, that is why the price is going up. When people stop eating them at these high prices would cause a drop in price but we havent hit that celing yet
So if the price is higher because of expenses all we need to do is not eat them at the high price and then the price will come down? How does that lower the expenses?
Posted on 1/6/12 at 1:26 pm to iwasthere
Yes I see what you are saying. If people stopped paying these prices then in theory the price would drop. However many farmers would quit trying to crawfish because there would be no money in it. The only variable in this is the spillway. We have had two down spillway years so the price has stayed higher throughout the year. If the spillway comes in during the early spring then prices will come down no matter what the expenses are. The farmer either can fish or quit then.
Posted on 1/6/12 at 1:52 pm to CrawfishKing
I rarely pay over $3/lb and don't mind it being between 2-3/lb. I do remember it being .79/lb years ago here in New Orleans, but things always go up.
Posted on 1/6/12 at 2:31 pm to CrawfishKing
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they have crawfish farms in Tx too
they must do it better than us..
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