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Originally Posted by "W"
Wrong, there is a lot more than that, 1st off you have to seed every year and $3.00 diesel to pump water cost a lot
And then those $25 per trap ( might be more now)
And gas for boats
Labor
Bait
Repairs
Did I say pumping water?
Back in the day when diesel was. 30 a gallon you made more per sack than now
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agreed, its like farming, people say they don't do anything, just plow the field and plant the seeds and it just grows lol. just because you cant imagine all the unseen work and investment that went into it doesn't mean doing it is as easy and care free an endeavor as it is thought to be.
so much of what goes into it is never seen or understood. not to mention the times the egrets swarm in and eat 50% of the crawfish before they can be caught. I remember those poor guys on the news with nets and wire and fireworks and sound cannons having to sit on their ponds for 14 hours a day trying to fend them off just to survive because you cant shoot the damn things that were eating them out of house and home.
I think market depicts price and I don't begrudge them the high prices, hell they need to make a living, I just begrudge the ones overpaying and driving up prices for everyone else. where ever you get to a price you aren't willing to pay, that sets the top market price and it wont go higher until someone is willing to pay more and that's the problem. its the person who says he needs it and wants it and doesn't care what it costs that is the blame for such higher prices.
if it costs more to produce then the price we are willing to pay then people will go back to catching wild crawfish and not farm raised. the land owners will do whatever makes the most money from their land (as they should) weather that's crawfish farming or planting a crop. hell pretty soon they will all only be growing medical marijuana if they pass that law and you wont see much private land used for crawfish anymore.