Donald Lehman
Well-known Member
Jeff baled his second cutting today. Ended up with 45 round bales. He figured he needed 150 bales for the year for his young stock and the grand total was 142 bales. Since we spread manure every day, there was no way he was going to get the hay ground covered between first and second cutting. He looked into speading urea. Would have taken two tons at $600 per ton. He decided it wasn't worth the price. He was right. Two tons of fertilizer: $1,200. Buy 8 rounds bales at $30 per bale: $240. He will now have plenty of time to spread manure on all of the hay ground before the snow gets too deep for next years first cutting. That's the kind of thinking that helps keep a man in business when the floor drops out of the price of milk.
