re: Crawfish farmers are making a killing off disaster relief program.

I do. I know everyone was forced to go to being paid by check and receiving a 1099, just like crabbers, shrimpers and oyster fishermen, because of rampant tax cheating

I know a few buyers control prices and that they've figured out they can charge nearly whatever they want to ship seafood out of state, raising in state prices.

I know that every year, early in the season, there is some weather event that attempts to temper expectations, and thus raise prices, which magically corrects itself after Good Friday.

Are they getting a 77% raise?

I ain't really mad at them, just stop pissing on my leg and telling me it's raining

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know a few buyers control prices and that they've figured out they can charge nearly whatever they want to ship seafood out of state, raising in state prices

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Totally false
Tell me why 20/22/23 prices in Feb were lower than the 10 year avg if they can charge whatever they want
Tell me why on Holy Week in 2022 the price was the lowest is been on that week in 15 years
Tell my why 21/24 were higher

Yea shipping out of state has caused demand to go up but crawfish acres have doubled in the last 20 years. The price on avg follows a similar curve pretty much every year

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Are they getting a 77% raise?

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It's not so much a raise as it is some are double dipping. Most ended up fishing last season and making some money. It was just a couple months late.

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Tell me why 20/22/23 prices in Feb were lower than the 10 year avg if they can charge whatever they want
Tell me why on Holy Week in 2022 the price was the lowest is been on that week in 15 years

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Gee what was going on in Feb 2020 that could have hindered prices? Cherry picking dates is a bold strategy

Yes I could keep farming. What do you mean all the subsidies. I got a Covid subsidy which every industry got something and then the ELAP subsidy. What other subsidies do you think we’ve gotten?

As usual, another clown show in a crawfish thread. The same old thing over and over on here.

If these posters had a clue it would be somewhat bearable to try and educate them. But most know everything there is to know already. And don't know shite.

Most of the crawfish people I know are strictly cash based. The don't report anything to anyone. How do they show their production numbers from the last three years when they never reported anything? Soybean, corn and other grain farmers sell through a grain elevator and their sales are relatively easy to audit. The grain companies pay with checks and there is a paper trail. Crawfish people tend to get cash from buyers with no paper trail.

Most of the people you know have 500+ acres ponds or 5 acre ponds? I get a check for everything I sell. Therefore I get taxed on everything I produce. Same thing with my rice.
People that crawfish for a hobby get paid in cash. People that crawfish for a living aren’t getting paid in cash