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re: Crawfish farmers: stacked
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:48 am to SelaTiger
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:48 am to SelaTiger
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i wish they’d just be honest and say we are going to raise the price because you will pay.
Why shouldn't they charge as much as people will pay? Do you expect them to do favors for you? Do you go to work for less pay just to be "nice" to your employer?
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Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:52 am to mdomingue
I mean if you honestly think after 2 years of dry no rain basically isn’t a problem for crawfish then idk what to tell you. Every year the same “farmers/buyers” go on the news at the beginning of the crawfish season and say it might be scarce year to scare the consumer. I don’t agree with that and they don’t speak for the rest of the farmers/buyers. So don’t lump us all together. Most years we catch enough to help the supply this year won’t be the case
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:52 am to tgrbaitn08
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You can get boiled
Where? I saw a few places in early December had them, but haven’t seen any since then
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:55 am to tgrbaitn08
Mother Nature is the reason we are in this predicament. And I know it’s hard to believe but election year doesn’t have nothing to do with the prices. The crawfish industry isn’t equivalent to the oil and gas industry. The spillway and delta won’t have crawfish til late spring when the snowmelt starts coming from the north. The spillway and delta are at record lows for depth
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:57 am to Miketheseventh
Farmers have no say so on prices. There’s a board of buyers that get together every Monday during the season and set the prices
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:57 am to notiger1997
Get the crawfish app. There’s a couple places on the Westbank and I think I saw a place in Chalmette.
I honestly don’t think you will see crawfish from the ponds at all this year.
Gonna have to wait for the water to come up in the Spillway
The flood gauge in the Atchafalya River @ Morgan City is at 1’.
It needs to be at least at 4’ to even set traps.
I honestly don’t think you will see crawfish from the ponds at all this year.
Gonna have to wait for the water to come up in the Spillway
The flood gauge in the Atchafalya River @ Morgan City is at 1’.
It needs to be at least at 4’ to even set traps.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:57 am to SWLA92
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There’s a board of buyers that get together every Monday during the season and set the prices
The Crawfish Mafia
Posted on 1/6/24 at 10:59 am to tgrbaitn08
Haha basically
Posted on 1/6/24 at 11:01 am to SWLA92
That’s what my pond buddies call it
They are scared to sell to anyone but certain buyers.
Some of them won’t even sell to their own friends out the back of the truck.
If they don’t meet their quotas the buyers will cut them off and blackball them
They are scared to sell to anyone but certain buyers.
Some of them won’t even sell to their own friends out the back of the truck.
If they don’t meet their quotas the buyers will cut them off and blackball them
Posted on 1/6/24 at 11:05 am to 3deadtrolls
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Farmers across the state are worried about this year’s crawfish crop, wondering
Good gawd….isn’t this EVERY YEAR?!?
Posted on 1/6/24 at 11:08 am to 3deadtrolls
It's for real this year.
Drought and salt water intrusion, because of the drought, are really messing things up.
A lot of farmers in Vermilion Parish are pulling salt water up in their wells.
Not only is it gonna be bad for crawfish, it's gonna be bad when they rotate to rice too.
I heard a farner put out 10 test traps and caught 6 crawfish.
Not 6 lbs, 6 crawfish.
At that point it's not feasible to put out traps....
Drought and salt water intrusion, because of the drought, are really messing things up.
A lot of farmers in Vermilion Parish are pulling salt water up in their wells.
Not only is it gonna be bad for crawfish, it's gonna be bad when they rotate to rice too.
I heard a farner put out 10 test traps and caught 6 crawfish.
Not 6 lbs, 6 crawfish.
At that point it's not feasible to put out traps....
Posted on 1/6/24 at 11:10 am to deernaes
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It's for real this year.
This
And you are a nimrod if you don’t believe this or don’t know why we are in this situation
Posted on 1/6/24 at 11:14 am to notiger1997
I’ve learned you can’t satisfy everyone. You will always have people bitching. Anyone with a pulse understands the situation with the weather the last 2 years. If people don’t understand it than they are just dumb
Posted on 1/6/24 at 12:15 pm to SWLA92
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This season will have little supply compared to years past. I know it’s not what everyone wants to hear but it’s the truth
Stop shipping them out of state. I bet supply goes through the roof and the prices plummet to $20 a sack like it used to be.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 12:15 pm to yellowfin
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This is the worst I’ve seen it
We saw a small emergence about a month ago when we had a big rain event, but the females I counted carrying babies only numbered in the low hundreds not in the thousands as usually is the case.
I dug up some burrows while repairing levee leaks and saw where they had buried 7 and 9 feet down where the water table is usually 4 feet below the surface.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 12:18 pm to 3deadtrolls
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Prepare ya'll lil asses.
I don’t know why, but this made me giggle uncontrollably.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 12:22 pm to saintsfan1977
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Stop shipping them out of state.
Why would a business do this is the demand is strong from out of state buyers?
Posted on 1/6/24 at 12:24 pm to saintsfan1977
None of my crawfish are going out of state right now only if/when supply picks up. But on normal years we need out of state sales to help ends meet. The crawfish industry won’t stop selling out of state regardless of supply that’s just the way it is.
Posted on 1/6/24 at 12:32 pm to YOURADHERE
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I saw one place was 5lb for $55.
What is typical?
Posted on 1/6/24 at 12:33 pm to TimeOutdoors
Depending on the area but south Louisiana this time of year is usually 5lbs/$40
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