MudBug GoldHappy Good Friday to all! Good Friday in Louisiana and "The Rouge" is one of, if not the biggest, day for crawfish boils. This Good Friday, the Cajun staple is in short supply. Faced with a trifecta of problems, an unusually early Easter, recent drastic temperature changes, and near tropical force winds that toppled traps earlier this week, supplies of live crawfish were in strong in demand, but light on supply.
Many seafood providers were sold out by early morning and many people were sent away empty handed. Hopefully crawfish farmers, faced with falling prices amid rising costs, made a happy little profit. Earlier this month, many crawfish farmers were making their voices heard as the price of wholesale crawfish has dropped from around $2 per pound to $1 or less. The Louisiana Crawfish Association agreed to try and limit supplies to prop up prices amid price fixing allegations by large seafood buyers.
The allegations state that over the past month, prices have dropped sharply across the state by the same amount on the same day, upsetting many farmers, who are struggling to make ends meet amid rising costs of production. Most farmers state that roughly $1 is invested for every pound of crawfish produced. Some small scale seafood operations are worried that the artificially low prices for crawfish will lead many farmers to dry up their ponds and convert them to grain, limiting future supplies of crawfish.
March Madness
'The' Tournament started yesterday with little fanfare in terms of big time shots or big time upsets. Today, now that is a different story. It started with Western Kentucky upsetting Drake with a buzzer beater three from the wing. The second was a game winning shot by San Diego to stun UCONN. Below is a recap of the two shots. No wonder March Madness is a "Billion Dollar Drain" on worker productivity...wait, we are the most overworked nation in the world anyways, right?
Western Kentucky vs Drake
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San Diego vs UCONN Game Winner
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