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JRSutton · Jul 30, 2014

I always appreciate a good sales pitch -

but this one made me laugh, selling hay "for horses":

WE HAVE OUR OWN FARM GROWN FIRST CUTTING HAY CUT FROM FIELDS THAT HAVE BEEN CARED FOR BY OUR FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS

I don't know - maybe I just need more coffee, but it made me laugh.

Not so much the effort they're making to sell it at a premium - that I appreciate - but to think there ARE horse people out there that'll read this and actually think "oh boy, I'd rather have FARM GROWN hay than that other stuff, it's even FAMILY CARED FOR hay - I'll pay an extra 50 cents for a bale of THAT".

Anonymous-0 · Jul 30, 2014

...for generations!

Greenday · Jul 30, 2014

kinda makes me hungry! lol

Mike M · Jul 30, 2014

Where's the line "organic" ?

CenTex Farmall · Jul 30, 2014

It's like buying Farm grown food instead of that junk at the grocery store.

JRSutton · Jul 30, 2014

I'm not sure.

But if it were me, I think I'd at least call it "hand stacked".

John T · Jul 30, 2014

WOW Farm grown Hay,,,,,,,,Now that's gotta be worth much more then NON Farm grown..

And around here, there are a ton of rich city Yuppies with a brat teen daughter (Braces, new boots and new hat, you know the type) who love horses and has them boarded, takes expensive lessons, and theres nothing too good for little Kimberly don't ya know, so Id bet she will cry and daddy will but her that FARM GROWN HAY regardless of the price WHAT IM SAYIN IS THE AD WILL WORK

Our local County Fair is this week and you can spot the Realtors and Lawyers a mile away, they are the ones with expensive pressed brand new jeans and new boots who watch where they walk in the cattle barn, and some even put a piece of straw in their mouth ITS SO FUNNY,, NO YOU CANT MAKE THIS STUFF UP I've seen them

Oh well, such is out there, who am I to judge lol If theyre happy Im happy

John T (Has raised cattle and crops and hay and it was allllllllllll farm grown by my own family and me)

paul · Jul 30, 2014

What is ironic is that, in an effort to get back to the land, back to local grown, back to knowing who you are buying from, back to nature.....

The ads and claims and flowery language of it all has often become worse than the misleading ads and prose from the faceless, big, corporate places.

Lot of good organic type growers on here and no insult to them, we all work hard and try to make out a living.

Just one of those generalities where the pot sometimes looks at the kettle all sideways......

Paul

Prawn Farmer · Jul 30, 2014

I would hope this hay was grown free range, too. I have actually witnessed mixed hay grown in enclosed areas of woven wire fences topped with 2 strands of barbed wired. Thank goodness there are organizations out there such as "FESCUE RESCUE" . . . .

gene bender · Jul 30, 2014

Bet the horsey people run to get that hay imagine realy farm grown hay wow

rrlund · Jul 30, 2014

That line is going out of style. You just have to say "local" now to reel them in.

Vernon in Ks · Jul 30, 2014

I laughed too,untill I thought about all the hay put up on road ditches with wide "right-of-ways". Ditch hay we call it around here. full of plastic bags and McDonald wrapers and who knows what.

SweetFeet · Jul 30, 2014

LOL!

Hand-stacked to perfection with care and love for your and your critter.

Traditional Farmer · Jul 30, 2014

Well if its truth in advertising you want then a lot of growers would have to say "Hay grown on land that's been saturated for years with all sorts of chemicals and who knows what else but we don't care and you're stupid if you do care".

DaninKansas · Jul 30, 2014

I live near K-State and have some the college girls buy hay from me for their horses that they took to college with them (no - literally - they took their horse to college with them - and a lot of them do it).

They show up in a $30,000+ 3/4 or 1 ton 4X4 diesel pickup to get a load of hay and have never handled a bale in their life. I normally refuse to load other people's vehicles because if they drive like an idiot and lose the load on somebody's hood I don't want to be liable but I have to stack their trucks or it just flat won't happen - but then I usually charge them an extra $1 a bale too. One girl asked me to follow her home so I could unload it for her too - for some reason my wife cut in and said I had other things that needed to be done........

JRSutton · Jul 30, 2014

Ha.

I had a young couple come for hay with a landscape trailer. Clearly they had never hauled hay themselves before.

I forget the count, 20 bales maybe. They just wanted enough for one layer on the trailer.

...They were afraid to go higher.

After I helped them load it, they spent the next 15 minutes trying to strap it all down!!!

I tried to explain that it was actually packed in pretty tightly, and really COULDN'T fall out, even if they TRIED.

But, they were afraid of the wind blowing one out once they got up to speed on the road.

What can you do.

I had to step in and show them how to use their brand new ratchet straps... (which I suspect were purchased specifically for this big delivery)

I finally got all five straps on for them, showed them how to remove them when they got home, and sent them on their way - for their 15 minute white knuckled journey home with their big hay delivery.

I shouldn't laugh at them, everybody starts somewhere. But... I can't help it.

Donald Lehman · Jul 30, 2014

Yeah, my granddaughter showed a calf for the first time this year. All the big shots running around in their designer clothes and my granddaughter running around in cut-offs and barefoot most of the time. The funny part was she came home with as many ribbons as they did.

Ron/PA · Jul 30, 2014

And selling to horse people, there"s still a 50% chance the check will bounce or they"ll be back to gripe about the quality after they"ve fed all but one bale.

rrlund · Jul 30, 2014

Good thing it's for horses. I wouldn't feed it to my cattle. It doesn't say it's gluten free.

ShadetreeRet · Jul 30, 2014

Well, at least it's not like the tomatoes my wife bought one time. Instead of saying "vine ripened", a tag said "vine grown". Hmmm, wonder how they did that?

Cas · Jul 30, 2014

Probably want more like 2 or 3 dollars more. One time we sold a trailer load of hay. After the hay was loaded, weighed, and paid for. The buyer told me was headed for the Meadowlands where he already had it sold. He said the money for the load was already in his pocket. He pulled $3000 out of his pocket and asked if he could buy a few more loads and would pay in cash(which perked me up)

Cas · Jul 30, 2014

Randy,
Curious about gluten free. Your not serious are you?

rrlund · Jul 31, 2014

About as serious as all the other nut jobs who throw that line around? lol
Do chickens contain gluten? My wife about pulls her hair out when they run those Springer Mountain Farms chicken commercials saying they're gluten free.

mkirsch · Jul 31, 2014

The ads and claims and flowery language of it all has often become worse than the misleading ads and prose from the faceless, big, corporate places.

You've got no choice but to play the game these days, or else you will be lost in all the misleading ads and prose from the faceless, big, corporate places.

Get your customer's attention. Even if only to make them chuckle.

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