Re: Fwd: [AlpacaTalk]New subject....Current alpaca sales
Heather -
You mentioned 100,000 alpacas being registered, however, how many
have gone to the great pasture in the sky? We may very well be less
than that. I agree that it is just this crummy economy. Although I am
no expert, I see the alpaca industry as still in its beginning phase!
Linda Lachanski
Pic A Paca Dreams Alpaca Farm
Delanson, NY
--- In AlpacaTalk@yahoogro
wrote:
>
> Here's my opinion: I think it's just a reflection of the economy as
a
> whole. Our industry is no different than others when it comes to
the
> effects of fuel prices, the extremely soft dollar, jobs outsourced
to
> China and India... you name it. Not to mention the sub-prime loan
> debacle, billions and trillions of dollars going to Iraq. The
economy
> just sucks right now. Some financial analysts feel we're headed for
a
> recession, some say a hard recession (depression?
>
> Others feel the alpaca market is becoming saturated, but it's
estimated
> that there are between 70 and 100,000 alpacas (we had "our"
100,000th
> alpaca registered a few months ago) in the US right now, and this
is
> fraction of other livestock species. I think there's plenty of room
for
> continuing growth in this industry, we just need to ride out the
poor
> financial times. I hope I can afford to do so, I am seeing very
good
> results in my very small breeding program, and I want to be able to
> continue!
>
> Heather
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> > From: CPHalpacas@.
> > Date: February 13, 2008 5:48:05 PM PST
> > To: alpacatalk@.
> > Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk]
> >
> >
> > Having a great loss at an auction late last year and watching the
> > Florida auction on computer and hearing that 11 of the 36 were a
> > no sale, what do the old time breeders see as going on now?????
Are
> > auctions in other parts of the country just as poor? ( I'm in the
> > SE.) Is this probably short lived? Have you seen this kind
of trend
> > before???? I am fairly disgusted at this point and I would like
to
> > hear what some of you older,
> > bigger breeders think. (not older in age--in longevity in the
> > business)
> > Nancy Miller
> > Crooked Pine Hollow
> > Winterville, GA
> >
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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