Mink Prices Plummeted Lower Than The Cost Of Production.

The price of mink, which has been rising for many years, has dropped sharply for the first time this year.

At present, the purchase price of one male and one female mink is about 240 yuan, lower than the annual production cost price of 280 yuan, while the purchase price for the same period last year was as high as 500 yuan.

Even such a price is priced without market, and there are no dealers in many places.

When farmers are worried, they can not help asking such questions: what causes the price of marten plummeted?

What is the future of the mink industry?

Last year, the number of mink was raised, and the amount of storage increased greatly. In October 8th, reporters in Wendeng and Rongcheng's coastal villages and towns saw that rows of mink houses were densely lined up on both sides of the highway.

Liu, a mink breeding farm in Rongcheng, has been breeding mink since 2002. He said that last year it caught up with the highest price in history. The price of male mink is 400 yuan, and the price of female mink is more than 200 yuan.

High priced mink stimulates the sale of breeding mink.

"Last year, I sold 4000 species of mink, when the male mink was 460 yuan each and the mother mink was 260 yuan."

Liu Chenggong said.

Lao Lin, a farmer in Zeku town of Wendeng, said that last year, he had sold all kinds of mink except for the species of mink used in his farm.

The staff of the Lu Po marten farm in Dong Jia village, Hou Jia town, said that their tens of thousands of species of mink were snapped up by farmers from Hebei, Dalian and local farms.

According to Lin Luoguang, director of the fur industry Office of Hou Jia town, there are about 3000000 mink stocks in Hou Jia town this year, an increase of 600 thousand to 800 thousand over last year.

There are hundreds of new mink farms, with thousands of them.

Last year, the mink in Zeku town of Wendeng increased by more than 30%.

Zhou Changan, a veterinarian station master, said that some scale farms had planted all kinds of marten when they were running high.

Small farms are also increasing.

According to statistics, by the end of 1999, the total number of fur animals kept in the city was 1 million 200 thousand.

By this year, mink breeding has exceeded 10 million.

According to people concerned, in recent years, the reserve of mink and other special fur animals has increased by 30% annually.

At present, Weihai has become one of the important fur animal production bases in China.

The cost of production doubled, even if it was the same as the previous purchase price, the farmers also lost money. "This year's mink market is bad, the purchasing price of the hormone mink is reduced to seventy or eighty yuan, and the purchase price of the mink skin has dropped from the early 200 yuan to 150 yuan."

In the afternoon of October 10th, the purchase price of hormone mink was raised. Wang Jicaizhi, manager of Minhe breeding farm in Rongcheng, shook his head.

Wang Ji Cai has been engaged in mink farming for 28 years, and witnessed the ups and downs of mink farming in the city.

In a book, he clearly recorded the price of mink in different years.

Reporters saw that the purchase price of male mink and female mink was 110 yuan and 80 yuan respectively in 1998, 120 yuan and 90 yuan respectively in 1999, and 200 yuan and 110 yuan in 2000 respectively. After 2003, they rose all the way, reaching the peak of last year.

Wang Ji Cai said that the price of this year's mink is equivalent to the price of mink in 1998, but at that time the production cost of mink was low, with only 140 yuan for each mink.

Nowadays, feed and labor management fees have risen sharply, and the cost of production has doubled.

That is to say, the same purchase price is now losing money.

"In another 1 months, naturally mature mink will come down. According to past sales experience, natural marten prices will be slightly improved on the basis of hormone mink.

Even so, the price of autumn marten is certainly not optimistic.

Wang Jicai predicts.

Expert: at present, the trend of mink price falling is global. "The fur traders who collect mink this year are all small and medium-sized fur traders, and the real big traders do not come."

Liu Chenggong said, according to his understanding, last year, the mink sold at a high price by big traders was not able to sell out because of market reasons.

"This year, the price of hormone mink has dropped sharply, which is related to the monopoly of fur traders."

Zhou Changan, director of veterinary station in Zeku town of Wendeng, said that every June, farmers would sell a group of feral martens.

As a result, once the matured marten is ripe, it is necessary to pick up the skin immediately, so that the cost of feed can be reduced.

At the same time, there is also a negative side: if it can not be sold in time, it will affect the quality of fur.

Zhou Changan said that fur traders in Hebei and other places are looking at this point and try to keep prices down in the process of acquisition.

At the same time, many farmers in developing mink farming process, loan or borrow money to cultivate mink, in order to return the funds, they are eager to launch.

"Low prices are also related to mink breeds."

Ju Chuanzhe, President of the mink Association of Hou Jia town, Wendeng believes that at present, the mink varieties in our city are mainly Jinzhou black and American black, but the improvement is not very thorough.

On the morning of 9, the reporter contacted Liang Xiaoning, head of China native produce and animal products import and Export Corporation.

He says the trend of the decline in mink prices is global at the moment.

The first reason is that the supply of mink skins exceeds the demand, and the total volume of farming is too large. Secondly, due to the impact of last year's warm winter, the international fur market is depressed.

The farmers should share information and raw materials and take the road of mink auction. "A few years ago, when I went to Weihai to give lectures on farming techniques to farmers, I repeatedly suggested that we should pay attention to fur quality and not blindly pursue quantity."

Liang Xiaoning said that not long ago, when he talked with his foreign counterparts, he realized that in the international market, the price of good quality mink was not large.

Xiao Liang said that there is still a certain demand for fur in the domestic market.

To solve the problem of the price decline of marten, the relevant departments should guide farmers to unite and cooperate, share information, share raw materials, and take mink auction to minimize production costs and maximize economic profits.

The relevant people believe that because of the uncertainties existing in many international and domestic factors affecting the market of mink, it is difficult to make a clear answer to the future market situation of mink.

Some experts pointed out that the price of mink will drop this year, and it will play a regulatory role in the development of industry.