Makin' hay

[tonyc1]

We may be asked to move to an appropriate forum but...as long as you have asked....

I don't make hay, I buy it....last year hay was scarce around here (SE MICH) so it got up to $5 for a small square, some paid up to $7...usually $2.50/3.00 range......while hay is plentiful now, they still are getting $5....they are blaming the high cost of fuel....fuel is costing $2.00 per bale more???? I think not.

I also just paid $25 for 100 lbs. of crimmped oats....I'm thinking this horse has got to go.....

We are paying $12.00 per bale for lucerne here in Tassy and it's cheaper than many others are charging.

Tony.

[jwwright]

Here in the Flint Hills country, we are fotuanate to have some of the best native grass in the world......big / little bluestem, some grama, etc. Native grass hay is being put up right now. Prices are about $125 per ton for small square bales, and $65 per ton on large round bales............in the field, not delivered. There will be a large amount of hay put up around here this year, and as usual, there will be a fair percentage that is shipped out to other parts of the country.

[rawhide1]

A day of hell in the hay field!!! well I put my hay down and it dried real nice. Real thick wind rows lots of hay. So we started baling and got two racks up and the baler shattered a gear so I borrowed a buddies baler and got one bale through it before it busted a needle. Well it was going to rain that night so my nieghbor said he would get his round baler and put it up so it wouldn't get wet. Well he got six bales rolled and his baler busted. And to top it off I had my head up my butt and pulled a rack under a tree and bent the heck out of it. What a day!! So needless to say I had pretty wet wind rows today. But I racked them over so maybe tommrow I can finish baling If I can find someone to bring a baler on this ground. I hope everyone had better luck than me.

Mike