Posted by John_PA on July 05, 2012 at 21:43:40 from (71.182.170.179):
In Reply to: How much for hay? posted by mosinee dave on July 04, 2012 at 05:54:59:
Anything cut after the last week of June for "first cutting" in this area is not hay. It's dead grass. Might as well give the horse a broom to chew on. That being said, with this unusually dry weather, I think there will be a lot of "dead grass" for sale this winter.
Timothy usually is just at peak around the 3rd week of June. This year, it was peaking on time, but there was an abundance of red clover in most local fields. I got a 5 acre field that put out 50 4x4 round bales of pure timothy and red clover. I did another 30 bales on 6 acres of straight timothy. Then, I think I did around 650 14x18x38 squares. All the hay is actual hay. I donated close to 350 bales to a horse rescue, as they just got a rescue heard of 40 quarter horses.
I'm unsure as to what I will be able to get for anything that I sell, as most people won't dial your number unless your price is $2.50 or less. They don't realize that actual nutritional hay is not the same as what they feed their horses. Actual nutritional leafy green hay cut in prime costs money to produce. Less of it feeds a horse better. I might sit on it and if there is a shortage, I'll ask $4 a bale for first cutting. I'd rather donate it, than let someone give me production cost for it.
Things will be tight for everyone this year. I can't put myself out of business just because someone else is willing to sell inferior product at half the cost.
I got a new copy of New Holland's "haymaker's handbook." I found it funny that the picture they used in teh front and back inside covers was of dried out brown orchard grass mixed into some other "hay." It's not a good thing to see that.
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