Fur Market Report December 2023: Prices to Keep in Mind This Season

It is always quiet on the fur market front when harvesting seasons are on. Most trappers are busy in the fields and forest chasing furbearers, and on the buying front, there is always a lull, a slow time in the trade. [Read More]

Fur Market Report Summer 2023: A Breath of Fresh Air on Our Trade — Finally!

Finally! Yes, finally, some positive news came in the world of wild fur sales! Thanks to the international fur auction held by Fur Harvesters Auctions, we can report some optimism and advancing prices. [Read More]

Fur Market Report April-May 2023: COVID, War, China & Russia Continue to Influence

April and May are months of reflection and planning. Quality skins are the last ones to lose their value when the fur market dips, and the first one to regain it when markets recover, so a strategy aimed at quality is much better than one aimed at large numbers of sub-prime skins. [Read More]

Trapping Gear: J3 Outdoorz HAGz Beaver Rod Ends

The HAGz Beaver Rod Ends (both stake and stop ends) were designed to work seamlessly with the HAGz® Universal Lock, on 1/2-inch Fiberglass Beaver Rods. As with all HAGz Trapping Products by J3 Outdoorz, they are built with efficiency, quality and the trapper in mind, and manufactured here in the U.S.A. [Read More]

Don’t Rule Out Cage Traps

There is a cage trap for just about everything from chipmunks to coyotes. They are easy to set and bait, and they help trappers be selective with what they keep. In today’s crazy fur market, it doesn’t hurt to be able to keep only the best fur, and release the rest. [Read More]

Fur Market Report April-May 2021: Vaccines & Castor Glands, Hot Topics This Spring

The year 2020 is finally over and for many people, it will be a year to forget. The COVID-19 pandemic spread quickly in March of 2020, and we are now basically one year later and still trying to overcome this invisible enemy. Luckily for most of us, trapping was still an option, and it was a fantastic activity when you could hardly do anything indoors anyway. [Read More]