Thanks for posting.
There are more coyote pelts this season than last. With the later Last Receiving Date this year I didn't expect as many coyotes in the May auction as in previous years. Certainly not 120,000 like in previous years. We had an extra 3 weeks or so to trap coyotes for the first auction that normally would have gone into the second one. In the end, the total number of pelts in both auctions aren't too much different.......2017 - 132,000 and 2018 - 143,500. 120,000 pelts in this auction instead of 70,000 would not have been good at all.
I don't expect the demand for coyotes to cool off too much and we should all do well in this auction.....but who knows? Grades might be lower with late season coyotes and could result in a lower auction average though I guess. I haven't check to see what if that happened in previous May auctions.
Around here there was a bumper crop of pups running around......no AC virus I guess.
Maybe that's why there are more pelts this year.