another hay ????

Let's say dry weather reduced your first cut to 50-60%. You raise your price accordingly and fairly without gouging because of the shortage...........
Then things get right and you have a better than normal second cut.

Do you put your price back to normal.

Leave it at what you charged for the 1st cut

Or split the difference between the two prices


Neighbor lady that I buy from only had 10 rolls of 1st cut. I haven't even seen them yet but she came and told me they were in the barn. Asked the price and she said she didn't like the way they rolled because there wasn't as much grass so she gave me the same price as last year. Paid her a couple hours later. Bought from some other folks at a higher price. Yesterday she was doing second cut and asked if I needed any. Told her I wasn't sure but let me know how many she had and what the price would be.

Said she'd have to think about it cause I paid a lot less for hers than the others. Asked her if she went to the store and grabbed a box of eggs and told the cashier they were too cheap. She gave me the funniest look then smiled and said see ya in a couple days........ I went on scratching my head over what that means...........

It depends on what its like based on distance. whats it like 5 miles away, & 10, 25, 50, 100 miles. Price of hauling has to be considered. Someone 25 miles from You might sell it cheaper with hauling included in price!

She lives 50 feet away and the hay is a quarter mile or so. Rest I got is within 2 miles. Everyone stores it til I need it and I pick up as needed. They just have to get it under roof before it gets wet and I pay them up front.
Should have specified, hay price only.

I sell alfalfa hay. I made the comment some weeks back on the price of fertilizer. With the lack of rain in SE Pa, the price of my hay is slightly higher than the price of fertilizer, fuel, twine, etc. The price of hay or any other ag product will be driven by the world global market place, period. The US government has decided to devalue our currency by about 50% in the last 4 years, meaning the inputs are rising drastically. Its not funny and its not going to go away. The way I see it is the high costs need to be passed on, then more people will take notice and vote for individuals who will stop wrecking our economy. I do not like talking politics here but politics has now got a serious grip on us small farmers, and it is choking us. Your concern is not with your neighbor, it's with the goof balls in DC.

(quoted from post at 01:21:51 08/21/11) I sell alfalfa hay. I made the comment some weeks back on the price of fertilizer. With the lack of rain in SE Pa, the price of my hay is slightly higher than the price of fertilizer, fuel, twine, etc. The price of hay or any other ag product will be driven by the world global market place, period. The US government has decided to devalue our currency by about 50% in the last 4 years, meaning the inputs are rising drastically. Its not funny and its not going to go away. The way I see it is the high costs need to be passed on, then more people will take notice and vote for individuals who will stop wrecking our economy. I do not like talking politics here but politics has now got a serious grip on us small farmers, and it is choking us. Your concern is not with your neighbor, it's with the goof balls in DC.

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Wrong country but I appreciate what you are saying.....

This is just grass hay and the only variable was the amount of 1st cut yield. The folks I buy from don't even fertilize it. They are grain farmers and the fields are just part of their holdings that have to be left green and mowed.

Dave it is not real hard to figure out. You live in a small village. You though it was fine to pay her less for her hay and then buy from others for more. She is mad about your paying her less. Does not make any reason why, she feels you cheated her by paying less. The people talk that you buy hay from.

You go on and on about how guys are crooks because they charge you more because the supply is less but it is fine for you to pay her less. You have kind of a double standard in your hay buying thinking.

She could go around to all of the neighbors and get them all to raise the price to you. I am thinking that your people skills are not making you popular with all of your neighbors. You have a poor opinion of many of them and they maybe getting that opinion about you.

(quoted from post at 02:21:38 08/21/11) Dave it is not real hard to figure out. You live in a small village. You though it was fine to pay her less for her hay and then buy from others for more. She is mad about your paying her less. Does not make any reason why, she feels you cheated her by paying less. The people talk that you buy hay from.

You go on and on about how guys are crooks because they charge you more because the supply is less but it is fine for you to pay her less. You have kind of a double standard in your hay buying thinking.

She could go around to all of the neighbors and get them all to raise the price to you. I am thinking that your people skills are not making you popular with all of your neighbors. You have a poor opinion of many of them and they maybe getting that opinion about you.

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No biggy She offered me hay for a price, telling me she didn't like the way it rolled, I took it and paid her sight unseen on her word. Still haven't seen the hay just know she has it for me. Only talking about 50 bucks and I'll look at the stuff she already has and, if not as bad as she thinks, make up the difference. Just wondering how some folks here look at it.

But, just to put it simple.....

2 JD tractors, same model, age, hours, condition, and serial numbers in $sequence are for sale 2 blocks from each other and you needed both. One for 2k and one for $1500. Would you buy the one for $2k then run to the other guy and say "you're not asking enough, I'll give you $2k"??

Reminds me of an executioner joke. 3 guys were set for the guilatine, army engineer and two other soldiers.
1st soldier sticks his head in and the blade drops, stopping just above his neck. He was let go because the law wouldn't allow a retry, same with the next one..

Engineer comes along and before he puts his head in, looks up, points and says "there's your problem right there"........

There is another issue here not mentioned. Typicall first cut yield on our grass here in the Great Lakes is 20-30% of 1st cut yield in a really good year; can't think the perennial grass yeilds over there are much different. So if the first cut yield was down that much they still need to charge a significant higher price for subsequent cuttings, I do, It would be stupid not to. So take that into account Dave on pricing those cuttings. On the other hand, she may figured since she gave you a deal on the 1st that you would be a loyal customer instead of buying other hay from the neighbors, happens all the time to me so next time they don't get any extra favors. I sell hay for a living and bottom line I need to make money.

(quoted from post at 05:37:39 08/21/11) There is another issue here not mentioned. Typicall first cut yield on our grass here in the Great Lakes is 20-30% of 1st cut yield in a really good year; can't think the perennial grass yeilds over there are much different. So if the first cut yield was down that much they still need to charge a significant higher price for subsequent cuttings, I do, It would be stupid not to. So take that into account Dave on pricing those cuttings. On the other hand, she may figured since she gave you a deal on the 1st that you would be a loyal customer instead of buying other hay from the neighbors, happens all the time to me so next time they don't get any extra favors. I sell hay for a living and bottom line I need to make money.

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I buy all she's got. Wipe out her and two others to get 100 rolls. Hope the harvest will be back to normal so I can keep the bucks local. she even done some rearranging/renovating so she can store more rolls for me, just don't have them this year.

Sounds like ya got it covered and those are just normal business dealings.