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Pastimes : Our Animal Friends
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From: Brumar899/12/2020 6:04:16 PM
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European Mink farms hit hard by Covid:

More than a million minks have been culled in the Netherlands, where there are 160 mink farms. 92,700 culled in Spain. China has a third of all ranched minks and hasn't had any minks culled.

What got me was how many minks are farmed.

And in the US:
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............. There are at least 245 mink farms in 22 states, according to Fur Commission USA, the nation’s largest association of mink farmers. More than three dozen farms operate in Utah, according to Clayton Beckstead, northeastern regional manager of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation.
“The threat to the livelihoods of those who farm the mink is very real,” Baldwin says, in large part because farms may be required to eradicate infected animals. In the Netherlands, farmers had killed more than 1 million mink as of 2 August. U.S. farms churn out more than 2.5 million pelts annually, according to USDA. Utah is the country’s second highest producer, processing more than 550,000 pelts annually. .............

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