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re: “We just don’t have enough water”: Louisiana crawfish farmer on unprecedented drought
Posted on 11/30/23 at 8:05 am to Blutarsky
Posted on 11/30/23 at 8:05 am to Blutarsky
quote:
Too much water, not enough water..
It doesn’t matter, high AF crawfish prices
yet prices were the lowest they have been in Lent on a farm level in years in 2022
Yall stupid mfers bitching about the farmers raising the prices have no clue how the crawfish industry works
Yall should be mad at the restaurants - they are the ones who don't drop the price when the prices drop on the farm
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Posted on 11/30/23 at 8:10 am to tgrbaitn08
quote:
The Spillway will have plenty of crawfish...
yea in March at the earliest
Also have you rode across the atchafaylya basin lately? They won't have normal water either unless it starts raining in the Mississippi river basin a lot
Posted on 11/30/23 at 8:13 am to Midtiger farm
quote:
yea in March at the earliest
That’s only 3 months away
And not all the ponds are dry
All of our ponds in Gueydan are full of water and so are the ones around us.
The ponds will produce crawfish, they already are.
This OP is full of shite
Posted on 11/30/23 at 8:13 am to loogaroo
quote:
Naw man. Welsh to Elton to Crowley and up through Whiteville will produce just as much. They all flood earlier now.
nobody in those places are fishing in Nov
They flood the same time they always have
Some might start in mid December but most don't until mid January and the whiteville area doesn't start until Feb
Posted on 11/30/23 at 8:17 am to tgrbaitn08
quote:
And not all the ponds are dry
No shite
quote:
The ponds will produce crawfish, they already are
Cool - nice anecdotal evidence
Go ride to pecan island or west of gueydan and see how many ponds are not flooded
Will there be crawfish this year? yes
Will acres be down which will lead to supply being down?
yes
Will the drought hurt production on fields that had water and were flooded on time? We'll see in the a couple of months
Posted on 11/30/23 at 8:35 am to loogaroo
Not in November I can promise you there won’t be much of any crawfish caught around Jeff Davis parish or acadia parish and points north in November
This post was edited on 11/30/23 at 8:41 am
Posted on 11/30/23 at 8:41 am to ragincajun03
quote:crybaby mother frickers
farmer
Posted on 11/30/23 at 8:43 am to tgrbaitn08
No one knows if ponds will produce and if they tell you differently they are full of crap. Now they could but we won’t know til February at the earliest I would prepare for a below avg season of production given the decrease in acres and just with with the dry weather we’ve had. If there’s any good to come from below avg production is the quality should be good usually when there’s less crawfish quality seems to be better
This post was edited on 11/30/23 at 8:45 am
Posted on 11/30/23 at 8:44 am to ragincajun03
Prices are higher because of higher demand. Demand is higher because people want to post on FB and Instagram that they're eating crawfish.
Posted on 11/30/23 at 8:58 am to SWLA92
You right... might not be happy with prices this year. Thousands of acres south of 14 won’t be flooded do to salt level in the water being too high.
Gonna be looking at $9/lb
Gonna be looking at $9/lb
Posted on 11/30/23 at 9:01 am to ragincajun03
quote:one of the few things in life that price just doesn’t deter me.
Crawfish prices stacked. Crawfish eaters fricked.
I want em. And I’m gonna buy them
I’ll bitch about it, but the addiction is real
Posted on 11/30/23 at 9:06 am to Midtiger farm
quote:but I understand this
Yall should be mad at the restaurants - they are the ones who don't drop the price when the prices drop on the farm
At some point the cost of prep, service and cleanup is fixed. I don’t expect a correlated price drop with if they go from 3 bucks a lb to 1.50. I don’t expect my 5lbs to go from 36 bucks to 18. And you generally see it drop to 29 or so which is almost the entire 7.50 in raw goods savings passed on
Posted on 11/30/23 at 9:09 am to tgrbaitn08
quote:
Gonna be looking at $9/lb
live? no you won't
it'll probably be 10-20% higher than normal
Posted on 11/30/23 at 9:12 am to Blutarsky
lol this same story is copy and pasted every year.
______ excuse to apologize for prices being so high. Every year
______ excuse to apologize for prices being so high. Every year
Posted on 11/30/23 at 9:14 am to Deactived
quote:lol they pump water into their crawfish ponds during rainy years.
It's a legit reason
Posted on 11/30/23 at 9:20 am to ragincajun03
Crawfish farmers in Kaplan talking to crawfish farmers in Branch
Posted on 11/30/23 at 9:29 am to CarRamrod
quote:Correct and many of them pump water for duck hunters already. The basin and other places with salt issues I understand completely.
It's a legit reason
lol they pump water into their crawfish ponds during rainy years.
Posted on 11/30/23 at 9:50 am to ragincajun03
Sugar cane is more profitable still.
Posted on 11/30/23 at 10:58 am to tgrbaitn08
5 seafood restaurants? Landry’s, seafood palace in lake Charles, Cher Amie, Chris’s Restaurant and oceans seafood in Alexandria.
Louisiana does have a lot of good steakhouses and sandwich restaurants though. Ruth’s chris steakhouse, Zea’s in lafayette, and the Mazen steakhouse. But seafood is just nasty in my opinion. It’s spicy and leaves a bitter aftertaste that takes a while to go away. I just like to eat regular food
Louisiana does have a lot of good steakhouses and sandwich restaurants though. Ruth’s chris steakhouse, Zea’s in lafayette, and the Mazen steakhouse. But seafood is just nasty in my opinion. It’s spicy and leaves a bitter aftertaste that takes a while to go away. I just like to eat regular food
This post was edited on 11/30/23 at 10:59 am
Posted on 11/30/23 at 11:00 am to tigerfoot
You do realize there was significantly less duck hunting this year and those that were able to pump only pumped the bare minimum probably 2-3 inches of water due to salt water. You need a good 10-14 inches for crawfish production
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