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FUR REPORT
The purchase of fur
harvesting-designated
rifles in calibers that
do not destroy hides/
but cleanly kill the
animal is also a sound
investment.
a slow and cautious recovery. Most
likely we will continue this recovery,
but at a snail's pace. The auction
houses are supporting this effort to
gain Ixick the market by limiting
price fluctuations and holding species
of fur until they have collected
a large enough volume to entice the
bigger buyers to come and make
large purchases rather then letting
small lots get taken at under fair
market prices. We have to remember
auction houses work on a percentage
basis, and the better you do the
better they do. When you consider
all the advertising, overhead,
employees, and insurance they
have to have, for the money, we're
really getting a bargain contracting
them to market our product.
Jim Gibb also explained a very
ini|x>rtant point in harvesters getting
more out of what they are
selling — the uniformity of product
for foreign buyers to inspect and bid
on is so inconsistent that they have
trouble figuring out what a large or
extra large is as we have no set pattern
sizes for hide stretchers. 1 le used
the ranch fur market as an example
of uniformity as these guys use standard-dimension
stretchers throughout
the industry regardless of what
country the farmers are from. Here
in North America we have an endless
variety of patterns and, thus, we
are hurting ourselves. If a buyer is
grading fur and he comes to a lot
of odd-shaped skins he will grade
down for size rather then guess at
what it will be after the tanning
process. So, by suggesting we start
doing little things like going to a
uniform stretcher there will be a
monetary reward for the effort.
The other issue that's coming
up is female cats and nursing
swirls 011 the bellies. The money
in cats is the belly fur, not the
back and flanks, the big dollar
coats are basically belly fur with
the black S|X>rt with flank or back
fur as trim. And we are getting
to the point of overharvesting in
some areas when you dip into the
female cat population. In so doing
you are going to end up with
a cat that is of little value, and the
most important |>art — the overall
population In a given area — is
damaged and slow to recover. The
best thing to do is find new imputations
to harvest from and not
dip into the female cats or we'll
have nothing in the future to sell.
The 2010/2011 season is right
around the corner and now is
the time to start preparing for it.
There is equipment to upgrade,
the establishment of new land
access, fur-processing equipment
upgrades and building of fur
sheds amongst an endless list of
things to do. Right now is also a
good time to outline what didn't
work or you had problems with
and resolve these issues so you
don't have to deal with them
again this season. The purchase
of fur harvesting-designated rifles
in calibers that do not destroy
hides, but cleanly kill the animal,
is also a sound investment.
Did you know these guns can
lx" a tax deduction if you report
income from the fur you harvest?
They're "tools of the trade" and
this makes them a legitimate part
of your business. Having a rifle
for a specific task really simplifies
the option of having to try
and make do with what you got.
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