This document was released two years ago and contains fur farm info obtained by the Fur Farm Intelligence Project since the release of The Blueprint fur farm list. View the 2010 supplement...
USDA No Longer Collecting Mink Farm Statistics
After budget cuts last year, it was announced the USDA will no longer be collecting data on mink farms. Previously, every year the USDA released statistics on the number of mink farms and animals killed for fur. Then in 2010, it was announced they would only be collecting data every five years. This document spells out the former methodology of fur farm data collection by the USDA, along with some statistics for...
Fur Breeder’s Agricultural Cooperative Plant Closed After Fire
One plant of the largest mink feed suppliers in the country is confirmed to be closed after a fire. Photos below confirm the building is a “total loss”, after a welder’s torch accidentally set the building on fire. The FBAC continues to operate a second plant in Logan, Utah; which is presumed to be taking up the slack for the out of commission Sandy, Utah plant. The FBAC is necessary to the survival of the Utah fur industry. Utah is the second biggest fur farming...
Gunnink Fox Farm in Minnesota May Be Closed
CAFF has received a report that the Gunnink Fox Farm may be closed. Calvin Gunnink has moved to Odessa, MN. The owners of the previous property which housed the fox farm are in foreclosure. The report states that there are no signs of an animals at Gunnink’s new, Odessa address. It is not out of the realm of possibility that he continues to own an off-site fox farm, though such farms are...
Utah Fur Breeder’s Cooperative Once Owned California Plant
One of the largest (if not the largest) mink feed supplier in the country, the Fur Breeder’s Agricultural Co-op, once had its own fish processing facility in California, CAFF has learned. The facility was once located on the water in Fields Landing, California, near Eureka. Specifically, “at the foot of “C” Street”. This is according to this document. However there is strong evidence the plant is now closed, and has been since 2001. Read the following quote from this document: In October 2001, the Regional Water Board received a letter from Eureka Fisheries, Inc., indicating that all operations at the Fields Landing facility had ceased… Fur Breeders Agricultural Cooperative requested that the WDRs not be rescinded due to the possibility of finding a new tenant for the property. No tenant has been found. The facility has been idle since Eureka Fisheries ceased operations. This would indicate strongly that this plant is no longer in operation. However, the FBAC still holds a tidelands lease on the property. In 2004, the assigned the lease to Humboldt Bay Forest Products. Any new information is...