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re: Louisiana Congresswoman Julia Letlow seeking H-2B Visa Cap Relief for Crawfish Industry
Posted on 1/28/26 at 4:54 pm to SWLA92
Posted on 1/28/26 at 4:54 pm to SWLA92
quote:I asked because someone mentioned a "cabal" earlier. That is it?
There’s a handful of crawfish farmers, buyers, and peeling plant owners, that get together once a week usually beginning of the week and set the price
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Posted on 1/28/26 at 4:57 pm to Jake88
Yeah that’s it. It’s no secret lol
Posted on 1/28/26 at 4:58 pm to SWLA92
Ok. Wasn't certain if it was real or an exaggeration.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 5:02 pm to Hampton
quote:
We always had plenty of crawfish back then, I mean plenty. I remember trying to catfish and bayou sorrel and pigeon and anytime your bait hit the bottom you were doing nothing but catching crawfish. I remember having to use dog food for crawfish bait because there was so much crawfish you could get a sack for $10. After the crawfish farms came in and those owners form their cabal, prices started to skyrocket and they started to tell us how much we needed them. I'm telling you, it was a lot better back then when we didn't have the farms
Times change. This isn't the 80's. Out of state demand and a crawfish shack on every corner wasn't a thing in those days. Freshly caught crawfish is usually in a pot, being peeled for frozen packaging, or a truck somewhere within 24 hours.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 5:23 pm to ragincajun03
She is a globalist. Vote for her at your own risk. There are plenty of unemployed Louisianan they can do this work.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 5:23 pm to SWLA92
quote:
You sound like a liberal dipshit.
I would make a bet that that's your go-to every time somebody has an opinion different than yours, pussy.
I'm stating facts and you're having a trouble dealing with it. You probably need to post less.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 5:25 pm to Defenseiskey
quote:
Times change. This isn't the 80's. Out of state demand and a crawfish shack on every corner wasn't a thing in those days. Freshly caught crawfish is usually in a pot, being peeled for frozen packaging, or a truck somewhere within 24 hours.
I do see what you're saying, but I'm telling you man did we have crawfish back then. It seems like everyone was having crawfish boils every weekend. It was nothing for your company to have a crawfish boil with 10 or 20 sacks of crawfish. I remember doing it for the VFW with nine sacks of crawfish and we just having a party. Now it has to be something special to have a crawfish boil instead of just doing it because it's the weekend.
This post was edited on 1/28/26 at 5:26 pm
Posted on 1/28/26 at 5:29 pm to Hampton
Your facts are dated from the 1990s. Boudreaux and his posse can’t catch enough crawfish to satisfy the demand for crawfish. If you don’t want to pay for crawfish more power to you. Get your pirogue and catch all you want.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 5:43 pm to chalmetteowl
quote:
The tech jobs are more likely to need talent that our country just doesn’t produce
For real. If anything, we should be more inclined to allow hb1 for tech jobs since those have the ability to keep us from falling behind the global powers.
Cheap labor for crawfish only will lower the lb/$ by a little.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 5:51 pm to Hampton
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Maybe if the crawfish farm owners didn't drive in f350s and have two story houses, they could pay the American workers a little bit better and still not raise the crawfish prices.
What a dumbass.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 6:19 pm to LsuNav
quote:
There are plenty of unemployed Louisianan they can do this work.
But will they? Will they show up on time and work the hours?
Posted on 1/28/26 at 6:24 pm to notiger1997
It’s amazing how far the crawfish demand has spread.
Hot Springs, AR has a crawfish festival. I’ve seen a crawfish truck on Hwy 71 north of Mena.
A Louisiana themed place in Gladewater, Texas was selling them boiled for $8 a pound between Christmas and NYD. Folks were tearing them up.
Hot Springs, AR has a crawfish festival. I’ve seen a crawfish truck on Hwy 71 north of Mena.
A Louisiana themed place in Gladewater, Texas was selling them boiled for $8 a pound between Christmas and NYD. Folks were tearing them up.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 6:41 pm to Twenty 49
C’est Bon in Mermentau, an area surrounded by crawfish fields, posted on their FB page earlier today that starting today they are selling crawfish for the season.
28 for 3 lbs. I love the way C’est Bon boils their crawfish. It’s damn good. But $9.33 a freaking pound?
However, they wouldn’t set that price point if they didn’t think folks would start buying. If people who live in that area are willing to pay that price point, imagine Houston and Dallas areas.
My wife is craving it like crazy, and I had to step in and tell her I was not going buy a sack at $6/lb from a contact I have in the Houston area. But if Mo’s in Mowatta is open when we head to Iota for Mardi Gras next month, I ain’t gonna be able to tell her no without serious repercussions.
28 for 3 lbs. I love the way C’est Bon boils their crawfish. It’s damn good. But $9.33 a freaking pound?
However, they wouldn’t set that price point if they didn’t think folks would start buying. If people who live in that area are willing to pay that price point, imagine Houston and Dallas areas.
My wife is craving it like crazy, and I had to step in and tell her I was not going buy a sack at $6/lb from a contact I have in the Houston area. But if Mo’s in Mowatta is open when we head to Iota for Mardi Gras next month, I ain’t gonna be able to tell her no without serious repercussions.
This post was edited on 1/28/26 at 6:43 pm
Posted on 1/28/26 at 6:48 pm to Jake88
Something else to clarify on crawfish prices. Like I said earlier, there’s a handful of crawfish farmers, buyers, and peeling plant owners that set the price from the farm. Boil n gos and restaurants set their own prices respectively
Posted on 1/28/26 at 6:50 pm to Hampton
quote:
"facts"
I wish for a season or two the farms wouldn't produce so you morons could see what would happen to the price and to hear all the crying from you idiots. Ditches, spillways and the basin commercial fisherman can't produce a fraction of what the industry requires and that's absolute truth. You have a handful of posters in this thread that are laying down "facts" but you aren't one of them
Posted on 1/28/26 at 6:55 pm to SWLA92
quote:The peeling/processing lobby is doing work. I agree Letlow has done more for Louisiana ag producers than anyone else in DC. Still gonna demand Xan at the polls tho...
The actual crawfish workers that work the fields are H2A and the workers that peel/work processing plants are H2B. Don’t know why there’s a difference but the actual crawfish production shouldn’t be effected much it’ll be the peeled/whole boil side of crawfish.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 6:56 pm to notiger1997
quote:
What a dumbass
The best part of you ran down the crack of your mama's arse, boy.
Posted on 1/28/26 at 6:57 pm to Classy Doge
You do know we did just fine without the farms, right?
Posted on 1/28/26 at 7:04 pm to chalmetteowl
quote:False.
The tech jobs are more likely to need talent that our country just doesn’t produce
There are lots of accounts of people in tech jobs training their H1B replacement. Then getting laid off.
There are plenty of Americans who can do the work. This isn’t super smart nuclear physics. Be it an engineer or a programmer; there are plenty home grown here looking for work.
Employers are just being cheap pieces of crap.
This post was edited on 1/28/26 at 7:12 pm
Posted on 1/28/26 at 7:11 pm to Hampton
quote:That's the key word dumbass. It's not the 1980's anymore dipshit
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