Whiteface:I think I stated I wasn't interested in selling my hay this year? With all my cattle going this year my taxes are going to be "fun" enough!
If I feed some this fall before the bred cow sales I won't have that much left anyway, and I always have preferred that late spring market when the price tends to rise a bit.
I would think even a trip from east of Red Deer to west of Olds would be "pricey" for hay? If I was you I'd go as local as possible.
Grassfarmer: Perhaps one cent is too cheap, but I doubt it around here. In fact there will probably be a lot for free in the field! The only time I ever paid for straw in my life was during the drought and that was because I was selling it as fast as I could get it baled! There are some super heavy crops around and the grain farmers quite frankly don't want to deal with all that straw(costs way to much in N to use it up) and for whatever reason a whole lot of cow herds seem to have disappeared(at least around here)! In fact there are quite a few pastures that have never been grazed at all...and it looks like they won't be!
I don't know how to explain it really. I suspect people around here just got sick of cows! This area,where I live, is in fact a grain area, where cows were kept to clean up the garbage and hopefully add a few bucks to the bottom line! I guess when they started sucking money out of the farm instead of adding to it, the farmers dumped them! And I suppose that is probably a good thing, but I do wonder where they went?
If I feed some this fall before the bred cow sales I won't have that much left anyway, and I always have preferred that late spring market when the price tends to rise a bit.
I would think even a trip from east of Red Deer to west of Olds would be "pricey" for hay? If I was you I'd go as local as possible.
Grassfarmer: Perhaps one cent is too cheap, but I doubt it around here. In fact there will probably be a lot for free in the field! The only time I ever paid for straw in my life was during the drought and that was because I was selling it as fast as I could get it baled! There are some super heavy crops around and the grain farmers quite frankly don't want to deal with all that straw(costs way to much in N to use it up) and for whatever reason a whole lot of cow herds seem to have disappeared(at least around here)! In fact there are quite a few pastures that have never been grazed at all...and it looks like they won't be!
I don't know how to explain it really. I suspect people around here just got sick of cows! This area,where I live, is in fact a grain area, where cows were kept to clean up the garbage and hopefully add a few bucks to the bottom line! I guess when they started sucking money out of the farm instead of adding to it, the farmers dumped them! And I suppose that is probably a good thing, but I do wonder where they went?
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