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Drought- 1/2 crop of hay

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Hay DR

09-04-2007 06:23:53

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Hay in the southeast is expensive. Trucking hay from other areas 300+ miles is just too costly.
We are going to feed corn gluten to make up the shortfall in our hay production. Currently corn gluten is running $90-$120 per ton delivered to the farm.

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HAYBOY

09-11-2007 13:18:27

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Re: Drought- 1/2 crop of hay in reply to Hay DR, 09-04-2007 06:23:53

This just an idea but have any of you thought of renting a truck from Ryder or someone of that nature and pickig some up in places that are not as affected by the drought as you all are? We buy and sell hay all winter long on top of producing 30,000 small squares. Upstate NY should have a fairly good amount of 2nd and 3rd cut available, due to the last dry spell we just had. I will be cutting some very late first cutting here in september on a neighboring farm. I will probably end up with 2-3000 bales. It will not be top quailty but will be good enough to feed for the winter.

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Hap

09-08-2007 17:39:19

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Re: Drought- 1/2 crop of hay in reply to Hay DR, 09-04-2007 06:23:53

Wish we could ours your way. Can't give it away down here in SE Texas.

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JTinNJ

09-06-2007 01:03:35

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Re: Drought- 1/2 crop of hay in reply to Hay DR, 09-04-2007 06:23:53

I cut 15 acres yesterday.Will bale on friday.If I'm lucky I'll get 100 small square bales.The maine reason I cut it was to clean off the trash so as not to have it in the hay next year.What ever I get will be more then if I had left it on the field.Will advise as to the number of bales I get.

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Willy P

09-05-2007 19:40:06

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We have plenty of hay in reply to Hay DR, 09-04-2007 06:23:53

We have been in bad droughts here for the last 2 or 3 years but this year we have had alot of rain and we have plenty of hay, can't give it away. I wish we could ship alot of it too ya'll but freight would be expensive. We are in east texas.

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farmallbee

09-05-2007 17:31:01

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Re: Drought- 1/2 crop of hay in reply to Hay DR, 09-04-2007 06:23:53

central ky the same way-45 dollars for a 4*5 bale, cannot even find that. I will make it if the winter is light. If we have a bad winter I would say look out for cattle sales.

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Blue guy

09-05-2007 11:41:15

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Re: Drought- 1/2 crop of hay in reply to Hay DR, 09-04-2007 06:23:53

I've never seen the pastures and hay fields this bad in TN. as they are this year.

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jimgoddard

09-05-2007 11:03:17

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Re: Drought- 1/2 crop of hay in reply to Hay DR, 09-04-2007 06:23:53

Its not just meat prices but dairy too. The price of milk is already high b/c herds are smaller and so many have gone out of business. Couple this w/ the drought and expected hike in feed prices and Im sure store prices will be MUCH higher in future.

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johns48jdb

09-04-2007 18:40:03

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Re: Drought- 1/2 crop of hay in reply to Hay DR, 09-04-2007 06:23:53

guys, i was afraid that this was going to happen. next to go will be pork producers because of corn prices. if i we a betting man i'd say that by this time next year price of meat will be double, if you can find it. so many people selling out that there want be as much meat to go to market.

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Help needed

09-04-2007 18:29:04

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Re: Drought- 1/2 crop of hay in reply to Hay DR, 09-04-2007 06:23:53

I also live in Middle Tn. Just north of nashville. As a matter of fact I bought a drum mower from the hay dr. It is a mighty fine mower too. Anyway our hay production is about 1/2 or maybe less of last year. I am fortunate to only have to make enough hay to care for about 10 horses. Although I have rolled about 84 rolls so far and hopefully about 25 left to roll if we get a little rain. The hay situation is bad and like everyone said most people are selling out or seriously reducing herd size. Anyway at 65-100$ a roll people have no choice. And I cant find anywhere near where I live to buy corn gluten. I would like to have some to mix with my corn and burn in my corn stove. Hope the hay gets better but I highly doubt it.

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Jared M

09-04-2007 09:53:53

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Re: Drought- 1/2 crop of hay in reply to Hay DR, 09-04-2007 06:23:53

Hay up here in central Ohio is pretty short but at work we are shipping any excess we have to Tennessee. We baled some unbelievably rough fields this year just to get hay. From what I have heard down there the pastures went brown in May.

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Tom in TN

09-04-2007 10:24:29

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Re: Drought- 1/2 crop of hay in reply to Jared M, 09-04-2007 09:53:53

Jared,

I live in Middle Tennessee just south of Nashville. We haven't had any significant rain at my farm since early June. Some rain has fallen all around me, but none here. My pastures are all browned out and my hay production was less than 50% of normal. I've started culling my herd (I have 33 head left on my 150 acre farm) and I've bought some hay from a guy about 125 miles away. I currently have 800 small square bales in my barns and I need to have at least 1500 to go into the winter. If we don't have a serious break in the weather, I'm going to have to sell at least half of the cows that I have left.

Two of the cows that I sold last week were yearling heifers. I got $.89 a pound for one of them and $.85 a pound for the other one. There is such a glut of cattle on the market right now, the buyers can take whatever they want at whatever price they're will to pay.

Pray for rain.
Tom in TN

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RayP(MI)

09-04-2007 18:12:31

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Re: Drought- 1/2 crop of hay in reply to Tom in TN, 09-04-2007 10:24:29

My report from central Michigan is almost a copy of Tom"s. cut the last field today, mostly weeds. Baleing it anyway, because it"s all I have. culling the herd of sheep & goats isn"t an option. Wife won"t hear of it. There"s no second cutting at all. Never came back.

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Rexalot

09-10-2007 12:00:40

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Re: Drought- 1/2 crop of hay in reply to RayP(MI), 09-04-2007 18:12:31

I was able to get 97 bales off of the 6 acres that I typically get 4 times that. It just never really grew much after the first cutting. Central Indiana.

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