One advantage of living here is that there are numerous mushroom houses just up into Pennsyltuck. Our leftover and ruined hay from last year goes up to Pa. to be turned into 'mushroom soil'. This gal drives and eighteen wheeler and is like a mistro at the controls of this cherry picker. She had this rig loaded and out of here in 1 1/2 hours this morning.Sure beats throwing it away, and they still pay us for it...
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Tx Jim
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- Coyote Flats, Texas
Why would you stack hay with rows touching and pyramided if you don't want the hay to rot? Every place the bales touch will hold moisture and rot. Rows touching are similar to a long funnel.
randallinMo
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How much do they pay for old hay like that? I"m thinking that you are literally "selling" the fertilizer/nutrients in the hay for way less than it will cost you to replace it. I always go around and ask guys if they have old/junk hay they want to get rid of. Usually they will have a dozen or so bales taht have been sitting in the fence row for a few years. I haul it off for them and get it for free for the hauling. I use it in compost/bedding piles for my cattle in the winter. It works wonderfully. I get "free" fertilizer this way plus all the compost/organic material associated with it. I would never just sell my junk hay for not much money. It's worth a LOT as fertilizer.
wilson ind
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I just wonder when the last post was on this site that someone DID NOT have some critisum of the fellow who posted for our enjoyment!!
Tx Jim
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- Coyote Flats, Texas
wilson ind
Correct me if I'm wrong. This is a ""discussion forum"" isn't it?
Anonymous-0
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Must be a huge mushroom operation to have a rig like that.
Russ from MN
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- Bemidji MN
Our neighbor up at the cabin is burning his! Seems like a waste, and it's smoking up the whole west end of Koochiching County!
Just to give you a few answers, we usually get somewhere around $100/ton. It's not much, but I have so much over production that I can't store, and some that got rained on,etc every year. So we set it off to one side, pull the twines off, and let it sit. When I feed, the cows waste enough good stuff, and use it for bedding in the barn, which is pushed off into a 'wet stack' pit, where it can compost and is used for manure/fertilizer. This stuff has to be a year old before they even want it, and if it has started to rot- even better. There was a time that we just pushed it into the woods. At least, this way it is, however small, an income, and it usually pays for this years twine bill....
fixerupper
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Years ago I bought a few bred cows and fed my last years bales to them. I quartered the bales with a chain saw, pitched them into an old Gehl silage chopper by hand to grind the hay, mixed in some shelled corn and protein and fed it in a feed bunk, by hand, of course. The only non-feed expense I had was fuel for the tractor that ran the chopper and the purchase price of the cows. I forget how I turned out on selling the cows and calves but it was an interesting winter,spring project. Those were the days when I had more brawn than money. Jim
Tx Jim
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- Coyote Flats, Texas
Only time in Texas rd bales won't rot when the sides(curved) are touching is in a drought.
Nathan (SD)
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Aint really a discussion when it is the same jerkholes poo-pooing everything. More like heckling than discussing.
Are there any tub grinders around you??? If I have any hay that is kind of out of condition I just have it ground and blended with better hay. Many times the nutrient value of what looks like bad hay is still fairly good.
It seems like if you put time and energy into something then cattle will eat it. LOL
It seems like if you put time and energy into something then cattle will eat it. LOL
Bruce from Can.
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- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
It has got to the point here, that the muxhroom plants will not take anything but ,big square straw bales. If is round they don't want it. And they sure don't do pick-up.
randallinMo
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Wilson, many times our comments concerning anothers post stems from our "opinion" of what he has just said/posted. Whenever we post about our "activites" that show pictures of same, we give an "implied" message that what we are doing is "recommended". I mean, we did this, so it must be the correct thing to do, right? It's only natural that we then as his readers "give our opinion". As TxJim stated, this IS a discussion forum. In regards to this particular thread, Donjr responded to our "criticisms" in a very appropriate way and thus added to the credence of his original post. Only on rare occasions, do we actually flame the poster.
Anonymous-0
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Don, You wouldn't want to pass her number along, would you? With all this rain, I could set the round bales flat side up, and get them rotting fast! Seriously, though I doubt she would come this far south, but maybe she has a contact in this area.
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