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re: What the 2021 crawfish season will look like for Louisiana
Posted on 1/15/21 at 12:07 pm to Tigerdew
Posted on 1/15/21 at 12:07 pm to Tigerdew
It's.....
too hot
too wet
too cold
too dry
too early
too late
too dark
too bright
too muddy
too clean
too many hurricanes
not enough hurricanes
Am I missing any?
eta (I'll keep a running list ):
Oil prices too high
Oil prices too low
Too many Covid cases
Not enough Covid cases
I think you are talking about the strawberry farmers in Tangi parish.
too hot
too wet
too cold
too dry
too early
too late
too dark
too bright
too muddy
too clean
too many hurricanes
not enough hurricanes
Am I missing any?
eta (I'll keep a running list ):
Oil prices too high
Oil prices too low
Too many Covid cases
Not enough Covid cases
I think you are talking about the strawberry farmers in Tangi parish.
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Posted on 1/15/21 at 12:29 pm to jimbeam
quote:
Speaking as a crawfish farmer,
Posted on 1/15/21 at 12:46 pm to fareplay
quote:
still don’t understand why anyone would choose crawfish over shrimp for boils. More meat
I'll take blue point crabs over both.
Posted on 1/15/21 at 12:53 pm to Midtiger farm
Get out of here with all of that common sense
Posted on 1/15/21 at 1:11 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
I mean...if everyone thinks crawfish are too expensive for what they are, then they should stop buying every bit a restaurant can boil at $8 per pound.
Evidently the demand is there to sell at those prices. Should the producers of the product just opt to sell at prices way below demand out of the kindness of their heart?
Evidently the demand is there to sell at those prices. Should the producers of the product just opt to sell at prices way below demand out of the kindness of their heart?
Posted on 1/15/21 at 1:29 pm to Midtiger farm
quote:Clearly this triggered you. I can not. I'm not a Crawfish farmer. I just know every year there is a different excuse. So much to the fact the running joke on the OT. Care to provide us the answers to all of these questions. We'd like specifics please.
Can you tell us why?
quote:
How many sacks a day should the avg farmer catch in January?
Tell us the cost of land rent/ traps/boats/ irrigation/ labor / fuel
Tell us how many acres there are in the US - how many pound they produce and when and how many pounds are consumed
Tell us the cost of transporting/sorting/ boiling/peeling/etc
Posted on 1/15/21 at 1:33 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
Stop buying crawfish, then. Start up a Facebook campaign for everyone to stop eating them, if you feel that strongly about it.
Posted on 1/15/21 at 1:42 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
quote:
Clearly this triggered you. I can not. I'm not a Crawfish farmer. I just know every year there is a different excuse. So much to the fact the running joke on the OT. Care to provide us the answers to all of these questions. We'd like specifics please.
Yea I'm so triggered
That joke is also played out
You can look it all up on the LSU Agcenter website and you will get the basics
What do you think the price of crawfish should be in Jan? How about in March, April and May.
You think the price is the same every Jan and Feb? Already this year even though before this week less than 30% of the farmers were fishing its gone both down and up .$75
Were you complaining last year when the price was under $2/pound by Mardi Gras and was a dollar a pound the day after the covid shutdown hit?
Posted on 1/15/21 at 1:52 pm to Tigerdew
quote:
Am I missing any?
eta (I'll keep a running list :lol):
Obama
Trump
McConnell
Edwards
Latoya
Posted on 1/15/21 at 2:08 pm to Midtiger farm
quote:
Can you tell us why?
I think if you live in Louisiana long enough, you don't have to be a crawfish farmer to understand that crawfish farmer's want to maximize profit and will use just about any reason to maintain high prices. There's always an excuse, but the more common ones are "too hot/too cold, too dry/too wet". Despite all of these are antonyms, they all have the same result. "Keep prices high".
Posted on 1/15/21 at 2:11 pm to Midtiger farm
quote:
What do you think the price of crawfish should be in Jan? How about in March, April and May.
You think the price is the same every Jan and Feb? Already this year even though before this week less than 30% of the farmers were fishing its gone both down and up .$75
You know what, i blame it on the crawfish speculators. Artificially causing the prices to rise. Must be the same guys speculating frozen concentrated orange juice.
quote:
Were you complaining last year when the price was under $2/pound by Mardi Gras
Not at all, and i hope it returns to that level. Or, it could be as expensive as the few years before last year?
quote:
was a dollar a pound the day after the covid shutdown hit?
I don't recall this. When did this happen?
This post was edited on 1/15/21 at 2:12 pm
Posted on 1/15/21 at 2:16 pm to BugAC
quote:
I think if you live in Louisiana long enough, you don't have to be a crawfish farmer to understand that crawfish farmer's want to maximize profit and will use just about any reason to maintain high prices
the farmers don't set the price. The market sets the price but really the big wholesale/retail places in Texas have a lot to do with it since Houston metro consumption is just as much as the whole state of LA
The price is $4/pound right now but most farmers are barely breaking even because they are not catching any crawfish. $4/pound don't mean shite when you catching 2 sacks for every 100ac
quote:
hey all have the same result. "Keep prices high".
yet the price is going to be under $2 during lent and around $1 after
What do you thinkt he price should be?
Posted on 1/15/21 at 2:20 pm to BugAC
quote:
Or, it could be as expensive as the few years before last year?
Oh you mean $2.75 in 2019 because the avg catch was way off
or do you mean $2-2.25 for the few years before that
If you did a weighted avg of most farmers prices for the last 10 years it would be under $1.50
quote:
I don't recall this. When did this happen?
It did and stayed like that for a month then went up $.25 because people stopped fishing
Posted on 1/15/21 at 2:36 pm to Midtiger farm
You ask me to answer all these questions for you(as a gotcha), but when I ask you to answer them (since this is clearly an area of knowledge for you), you just tell me to Google it
quote:Maybe they were wholesale. But you weren't buying Crawfish for those prices anywhere in BR or NOLA.
Were you complaining last year when the price was under $2/pound by Mardi Gras and was a dollar a pound the day after the covid shutdown hit?
This post was edited on 1/15/21 at 2:38 pm
Posted on 1/15/21 at 2:40 pm to Midtiger farm
quote:
If you did a weighted avg of most farmers prices for the last 10 years it would be under $1.50
I've never seen these prices in BR. But, i didn't really start paying attention until a couple years ago.
Posted on 1/15/21 at 2:55 pm to Tigerdew
Yep Tigerdew, the list of issues affecting the crawfish industry is never ending, and no matter how good we mere mortals think the season went, the retailers will be crying about how awful it was.
Reminds me of bookies I knew years ago always bitching how they got hammered week after week, but still driving Lincolns and Cadillacs with the Mr. T Starter Set around their necks and a pocket full of $100 bills.
Reminds me of bookies I knew years ago always bitching how they got hammered week after week, but still driving Lincolns and Cadillacs with the Mr. T Starter Set around their necks and a pocket full of $100 bills.
Posted on 1/15/21 at 2:57 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
quote:
ask me to answer all these questions for you(as a gotcha), but when I ask you to answer them (since this is clearly an area of knowledge for you), you just tell me to Google it
Because you were running your mouth when you don’t know shite
Usually it’s better to gain some knowledge about what you are talking about instead of making yourself look like a fool
Posted on 1/15/21 at 3:20 pm to Midtiger farm
quote:So I'm just going to take this as you are unable to answer your own questions
Because you were running your mouth when you don’t know shite
quote:you seem pretty triggered now
Yea I'm so triggered
Posted on 1/15/21 at 4:17 pm to BugAC
quote:
I've never seen these prices in BR.
Are you buying straight from a farmer in Br?
If you buy straight field run not cleaned from the wholesaler who buys from the farm you can add $.25/pound
Clean or clean graded you can add more than that and if it goes to a bigger wholesaler or a restaurant probably can at least a $1.00
Posted on 1/15/21 at 4:29 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
Ok since you are lazy and stupid
Avg numbers - $600/ac for
seed crawfish/fuel/labor/traps/other supplies/fertilizer
If you don't own the land you looking at atleast $75/ac cash rent.
Then you have tractors and any other farm equipment cost that crawfish has to pay its share with the rice along with irrigation equipment and the cost it takes to get the ground back ready for rice the next year
So say you catch 600#/ac and your avg price is $1.50 you are making money but you're not hitting the jackpot
Avg numbers - $600/ac for
seed crawfish/fuel/labor/traps/other supplies/fertilizer
If you don't own the land you looking at atleast $75/ac cash rent.
Then you have tractors and any other farm equipment cost that crawfish has to pay its share with the rice along with irrigation equipment and the cost it takes to get the ground back ready for rice the next year
So say you catch 600#/ac and your avg price is $1.50 you are making money but you're not hitting the jackpot
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