Neighbor just lost his hay barn!!!!

JD Seller · Sep 21, 2018

Neighbor's hay barn caught fire about 2.30PM. It was gone really fast. They are digging through it right now with a big track hoe so they can get it all put out. Bad thing as he just put his fourth crop in last week. He is organic too. So replacement hay is not going to be very cheap. I should have stated he is a organic dairy farmer. So he needs good hay on top of being organic.

Boys are over there right now helping with the evening milking. I will stop in and see him tomorrow. I told the boys to tell him that anything he needs to just ask and it is his. He is around 41-42 years old with a SUPER family. He is on the home farm and does an excellent job too.

Only good thing is no one hurt and I do not think any equipment lost either.

IA Roy · Sep 21, 2018

Such a tragedy

Philip d · Sep 21, 2018

That?s going to be really tough. Lucky everyone is ok ,hopefully his insurance will cover the extra cost to source organic.

NY 986 · Sep 21, 2018

Always a nerve racking time when hay goes in the barn. Even with the best planning and execution there seems to be a few questionable bales from each field. Doing hay for dad or the neighbor they always had me error on the side of caution if a bale did not seem right that it got set aside and either fed up promptly or set a reasonable distance from the barn until it is fed.

larry@stinescorner · Sep 21, 2018

really sad,,sorry to hear it

tomNE · Sep 21, 2018

hay is the most dangerous commodity that farmers work with; local guy just lost over 4000 big squares of alfalfa. weighed 1750lbs average, with no insurance

Vito · Sep 21, 2018

That?s definitely a hardship.

Vito

centash · Sep 21, 2018

That is tough. I recall helping out neighbours over the years who lost their dairy barn. Always felt it would be less hassle to loose your house.
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Charlie M · Sep 21, 2018

What do they thing caused it - not dry enough? My uncle used to tell a story of working for a farmer in the 50's in one of those old barns with mows that would hold 10,000 bales. He said they got into the middle of it during the winter and it was just charcoal. Obviously wet hay but couldn't get enough oxygen in the middle of the mow to go up in flames. Talk about a close call.

steve706 · Sep 21, 2018

A neighbour down from me lost his barn with all his hay a few weeks back, rubble smouldered for almost 2 weeks. The majority of his equipment was saved, but unfortunately one of the cows went in and wouldn?t come out. Guys are donating hay and storage to help him get by, nice people on a century farm.

coshoo · Sep 21, 2018

Heard the same about an upright silo- they opened the silo during the winter and there was just some ash in the bottom. Not too wet, as in hay, but too dry to ensile properly.

jeremy in NE · Sep 21, 2018

Sorry to hear of their misfortune. We may have some certified hay. We have not tested it due to it going to our stock cows. I think my email is open.

DoubleO7 · Sep 21, 2018

Do any farmers that need to store thousands of bales ever divide up the supply into more than one big barn?

DoubleO7 · Sep 21, 2018

to reduce the chances of loosing it all?

Mule Meat · Sep 21, 2018

I know how he feels.. No fun to have a barn go up in flames..

Geo-TH,In · Sep 22, 2018

A farmer lost his hay barn because of big round bales of wet hay. His barn was canvas over pipe tent. So only thing he lost was the hay and tent.

rockyridgefarm · Sep 22, 2018

I think that is one advantage to wet wrapped hay. No chance of fire, and it's stored outside if something does happen.

I don't think I can help out with free hay, but I am willing to sell him some hay at a discount if that would help him. I have 67 bales of wet wrapped first crop that has been tested and 30 bales of wet wrapped fourth crop that hasn't yet. The fourth crop is poorer than usual because of all the rain and not getting it cut timely. There's also a Mennonite a few miles from me that has a lot of wet wrapped organic hay. He charges $1.35 per point on RFQ per ton adjusted for moisture to 15%.

You can give him my number if I can help out with a load. six oh eight seven three two five oh five three.

Naylorbros · Sep 22, 2018

Four year ago on Sept 4 we lost our hay, haybarn, New Holland Self Propelled bale wagon and New Holland LS190 skidsteer to a fire. The fire department and city were still there working on hot spots on Sept 7. after it had been hauled out in a hay field and spread over several acres. Not many of us left in the Salt Lake Valley but those of us who are trade off a lot of work and other stuff as needed. We usually only keep about 50 head of beef but enough hay showed up after the fire that we only had to purchase one semi load to make it through the winter. The one neighbor let us use his 3x3 square baler for a couple of years until we got another bale wagon. We should have let a couple of the other old building go in that fire as they had started on fire but we did not. We have ended up removing them in the last 4 years.

jacksun65 · Sep 22, 2018

Uncle was buying hay for his dairy small squares back then. Went to pick up some hay in the big hay barn, had loaded about 90 bales and they were hot. Then some were brown, uncle went and told the man he wasn't going to get any of the burnt hay LOL. Went by about a week later they had pulled out the burnt ones made a pile about twenty feet high. Next year the guy's barn burnt, you think he would have learned.

CaseChev · Sep 22, 2018

Drove by there about 5:00 yesterday on way back from Des Moines to Milwaukee......pretty much over with.

JD Seller · Sep 22, 2018

Thanks for the number. I will pass it along to him.

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