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Posted on 2/21/24 at 7:28 pm to SWLA92
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Supply is at an all time low.
Like any commodity, the cure for high prices is high prices, and the cure for low prices is low prices. Government involvement distorts the market signals and doesn't let markets find price stability. Buckle up and get lean, that's what my industry has to do when times get hard. We cannot all expect the nanny government to keep coming to the aid of every sob story.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 7:36 pm to SWLA92
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if producers don’t survive this season they won’t be another season for some of them.
So just like any other business? Sone fail?
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Then they’ll be less crawfish on the market next season.
If the demand is there, new market participants will enter, and/or others will expand.
Propping up companies with federal money never works.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 7:37 pm to SWLA92
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Calling it a loss this year will end the crawfish industry as you know it. You think prices are bad now? They’ll be a fraction of crawfish producers survive if this season continues like it is. Less producers means less supply, and the demand is only going to get higher which means prices will stay higher than what we are used to.
Then some entrepreneurs will go buy the idle crawfish farms since demand and prices will be so high and increase supply. Or remaining operations will expand to meet demand
Posted on 2/21/24 at 7:45 pm to Motorboat
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Is Ricky Phillips one of them?
Ricky “retired” from the crawfish business some years back, unless he jumped back in. Though he ran a very successful business he didn’t move the volume of crawfish to be anywhere close to the “big three” - whoever they might be.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 7:47 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
Bean 11$
Corn 4$
Cotton 70 cents
Yeah crawfish farmers
Corn 4$
Cotton 70 cents
Yeah crawfish farmers
Posted on 2/21/24 at 7:53 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
I wonder if Jeff Landry is going to ask for federal assistance when fuel prices get too high, or when steel prices get too high, or when the price of vehicles get too high
What about minimum wage, college tuition, flood and homeowners insurance???
shite why stop at crawfish???
What about minimum wage, college tuition, flood and homeowners insurance???
shite why stop at crawfish???
This post was edited on 2/21/24 at 7:54 pm
Posted on 2/21/24 at 7:54 pm to SWLA92
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Do you understand the money crawfish generates for Tourism?
I've heard it all. Add this to the list of reasons the prices will be high for 30 years. Tourism
Posted on 2/21/24 at 7:56 pm to SWLA92
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Do you understand the money crawfish generates for Tourism? The state of Louisiana generates $400 million from crawfish a chunk of that coming from tourist.
Tourist don’t even know how to peel a crawfish
and once they learn they might eat a 1lb 
Posted on 2/21/24 at 7:57 pm to SWLA92
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Calling it a loss this year will end the crawfish industry as you know it. You think prices are bad now? They’ll be a fraction of crawfish producers survive if this season continues like it is. Less producers means less supply, and the demand is only going to get higher which means prices will stay higher than what we are used to. Be careful what you ask for
I respect your experience in the industry, but this is hyperbolic.
If producers go out of business, the fields still exist, and someone will step in and take them off their hands as things normalize. It’s not like there is some patented crawfish mating technology that will die with the current farmer.
If there is money to be made in future years, it will be made, even if it’s with a different set of producers.
This post was edited on 2/21/24 at 7:59 pm
Posted on 2/21/24 at 7:58 pm to SWLA92
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:04 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
C’mon Landry, don’t be a pussy like every other gubment frickstick. Why not try something fresh, like telling businesses and people to live or die on their own merit? THIS is the only way to reset our culture to prosper for another 250 years. NOBODY has the nuts to choose the correct path. Our whole economy is propped up by subsidies and other government meddling. Free markets are the gold standard of economies. Shameful that we are just a shinier, more efficient version of the old USSR. We are a broken, hapless wreck.
This post was edited on 2/21/24 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:10 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
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Governor Jeff Landry on Wednesday (Feb. 21) penned a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack, pressing for federal aid to tackle the recent drought’s detrimental impact on Louisiana’s crawfish industry.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:14 pm to SelaTiger
... ranks really up there;
UKRAINE
ISRAEL
CRAWFISH
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:15 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
Shrimp > crawfish
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:20 pm to slackster
The older farmers are getting out the business there’s just not enough young farmers anymore. No young person wants the headache of farming. You can’t just wake up one day and decide to farm. Yeah some farmers might absorb neighboring farms that go idle but there will still be a void.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:22 pm to Bayou_Tiger_225
Pretty wild to do this after he just told families they needed to be self sufficient & not depend on summer food stamps (which I agree with btw)
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:23 pm to deltaland
Don’t you farm? You think any “entrepreneur” can just wake up and decide to farm? The money you have to have to start up nowadays would be astronomical. No bank would touch you if you walked in and said I want to take out a loan to start farming.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:26 pm to WB504
quote:How many people turned away stimulus checks? Didn’t hear of the govt getting too many sent back
Either you’re fine with taking government handouts or not. Don’t ride the fence.
Truth is, I agree they shouldn’t get a bail out. But everyone seems to “see it differently” when they are the one struggling. Human nature be a bitch
This post was edited on 2/21/24 at 8:28 pm
Posted on 2/21/24 at 8:29 pm to SWLA92
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Don’t you farm? You think any “entrepreneur” can just wake up and decide to farm? The money you have to have to start up nowadays would be astronomical. No bank would touch you if you walked in and said I want to take out a loan to start farming.
Anyone can buy traps, a boat and fish in the spillway/ basin.
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