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Posted by old fashioned farmer on December 17, 2005 at 07:17:16 from (70.105.78.239):
Good morning and howdy all, The hay business is starting to pick up a little around home. Got a customer comin this morning but had to let dad handle it as I'm at the parts counter right now. Makes it hard to run a hay business when you're 30 miles from the barn. But I gotta pay bills so the parts job has to stay. Anyway, after the year I've had with my baler breaking down (and stil not fixed), my main power source tractor still in the shop (waiting for warmer weather so I can plug a leak with liquid glass), and the weather problems I had; I've been thinkin awful hard about how I'm going to make this hay business profitable. I'd like to expand but I don't know how to go about it with my job keepin me away from 7am till 5:45pm and 7-12:45 on Saturdays it is hard to get stuff done. I'm hoping to invest in a haybine come spring but don't know any good ways to fight the S. OH summer weather. Last year I put over 600lb of fertilizer to the acre on one field. I still haven't finished bush hogging what would have been the first cutting on half of that field. The wet spring kept me out and by the time it did dry there were big stalky weeds maturing in it. That ruined most of what I cut off of it and it isn't selling well. I know that moving to a haybine will do a big favor since my neighbor put in great hay this year and I lost most of mine to rain. I'm not in a financial position to heavily invest in fert., equip., and labor but want to expand so this hay business is more than just a hobby to eat money and tear up equipment. Guess I need to diversify into goats ha ha! Any ideas for a poor guy with old equipment who wants to keep the latter part the same? God bless. --old fashioned farmer
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