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re: Craw fish farmers need your help
Posted on 3/18/20 at 7:46 am to Cowboyfan89
Posted on 3/18/20 at 7:46 am to Cowboyfan89
whos got the best online/shipping set up for crawfish?
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Posted on 3/18/20 at 7:57 am to Captain Crackysack
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I'm as sick and tired as the next guy with all this "please support your local blah blah blah" shite. As if every other business somehow isn't struggling. But the government artificially suppressing demand isn't exactly capitalism.
I think after years of price gouging people and justifying it with “muh market condishuns”, now you mudbug farmers are finally getting a taste of your own medicine and don’t like it very much.
This post was edited on 3/18/20 at 7:58 am
Posted on 3/18/20 at 8:05 am to TrouserTrout
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.99 cents a pound is plenty for live crawfish. I hate how overpriced they have become. Years ago they used the excuse of high gas was which caused bait to get high. Gas prices dropped and the crawfish didn’t because dumbasses continued to pay those outrageous price
Have you taken a econ class in your life?
You do realize that small crawfish have been selling for $.75/pound for a month now and the med crawfish price is the lowest its been this time of year in the last 5 years.
Every year after Lent when the demand goes down and the supply goes up the price ends up anywhere from $.80 to $1.25 at the farmer level
Posted on 3/18/20 at 9:01 am to Cowboyfan89
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Some of you people are too damn stupid for your own good. The restaurants and processors control the price, not the farmers. Hell, the farmers are being told not to fish right now because restaurants aren't buying.
Sounds to me like it might be a good time to get of the restaurant/processor tit and start marketing them to the public! Cut the middleman out and create your own market
Posted on 3/18/20 at 9:05 am to Lugnut
I've been doing that for years.
If anybody needs crawfish....1.97 per lb Bob Acres Farms.
Straight from the farmer, fished the same day as pickup
If anybody needs crawfish....1.97 per lb Bob Acres Farms.
Straight from the farmer, fished the same day as pickup
This post was edited on 3/18/20 at 9:06 am
Posted on 3/18/20 at 9:08 am to Trevaylin
I don't see where the price of live crawfish has dropped at all.
Posted on 3/18/20 at 9:21 am to Murtown
Lemme know when they $50/sack. I’ll be happy to help out
Posted on 3/18/20 at 9:22 am to upgrayedd
Posted on 3/18/20 at 9:25 am to SuperSaint
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Good frick
Did you mean luck? Thinking about your time in jail again huh?
Posted on 3/18/20 at 9:29 am to Lugnut
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Sounds to me like it might be a good time to get of the restaurant/processor tit and start marketing them to the public! Cut the middleman out and create your own market
It's not quite as easy as being a watermelon or sweet potato farmer that just parks on the side of the road and sells his product. Plus, how many people are going to buy an entire sack to boil for a family of 4 or 5 versus just going out to a restaurant and not having to worry about clean up?
There's a reason they sell to processors and restaurants--if's a more efficient business model. But that doesn't change the fact that those middlemen control the market, so blaming the farmer for $4 crawfish is ridiculous.
Posted on 3/18/20 at 9:29 am to Lugnut
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Sounds to me like it might be a good time to get of the restaurant/processor tit and start marketing them to the public! Cut the middleman out and create your own market
Plenty of farmers do this or they open their own restaurant but they farm other crops also and local demand can’t meet supply so those crawfish have to move all over state and to other states so even if you market some on your own you still need wholesalers
Posted on 3/18/20 at 9:38 am to Lugnut
It’s not that simple. You can’t set up on the side of the road and sell 100+ sacks. People think it’s just that easy and it’s not. That’s the other side of the crawfish industry that the common man doesn’t understand.
Posted on 3/18/20 at 9:50 am to Trevaylin
need an "eat mor crwfsh" commercial
Posted on 3/18/20 at 10:17 am to upgrayedd
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Eh, those crawfish guys have been fricking us over for decades
A lot like the Oil & Gas folks that complain about gas prices going down.
They're out there wearing white Oakley's while they drive their F-250 back and forth to the refinery, I'm cooped up in a Civic Hybrid trying to drive all over DFW selling advertising.
Posted on 3/18/20 at 10:37 am to Trevaylin
You’d think crawfish to go would be good business
Posted on 3/18/20 at 10:39 am to Murtown
Agree. 5 bucks a pound is what I saw. Does not sound like they are worried too much charging that much boiled
Posted on 3/18/20 at 10:48 am to Murtown
We’re getting $1.50 out the field right now it dropped Monday.
Posted on 3/18/20 at 11:04 am to Cowboyfan89
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so blaming the farmer for $4 crawfish is ridiculous.
Whoa there chief. I’ll admit that the anti-crawfish farmers have stretched the truth a bit, but you can’t deny the annual crawfish farmer interviews that state “it’s not going to be a good year because of xyz” that lead to higher prices
Not to mention shipping it all around the country like crabbers do
This post was edited on 3/18/20 at 11:05 am
Posted on 3/18/20 at 11:07 am to Trevaylin
Crawfish: the only commodity where low demand = price increase
Posted on 3/18/20 at 11:10 am to Thib-a-doe Tiger
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Whoa there chief. I’ll admit that the anti-crawfish farmers have stretched the truth a bit, but you can’t deny the annual crawfish farmer interviews that state “it’s not going to be a good year because of xyz” that lead to higher prices
Every media story from this winter said that the crawfish were plentiful and the prices were lower than usual
Also why wouldn’t the product get moved to other places? Do you think the demand of South LA can keep up with the supply?
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