LOOKING AHEAD FOR A POSITIVE TURNAROUND
Life is not easy in the fur world right now. Every auction season we keep thinking that we have hit the bottom of the barrel — only to realize that the market dropped again. Every time we keep thinking that things will turn around, and really, how much worse can it get? We develop optimism, maybe as a defense mechanism, maybe because we know how painful it is to be realistic.
This past auction season was no different. There was a very slight wind of optimism at the beginning because really, how much worse could it get? The volume of ranch mink had been shrinking, so really, we were all hoping things would start a very slow
