Friday Crop Report on a Thursday!

[fjlip]

"sitting on the ground bare assed", supposed to be a woman's test, right?

[jazz]

Peashooter is ready to go. In my next career I will custom seed for guys who cant get their 70 ft air drills into tight spots.

[farmaholic]

"sitting on the ground bare assed", supposed to be a woman's test, right?

Well, if men do it and their nuts touch the ground its warm enough to seed. I hope you can understand the test, I don't draw very well.

[iceman]

Cheer up jazz. Monette is the third flip on this land since locals sold out back in 2003 or so. Give it a couple more years and the Saudis will buy it all up like they're doing in Western Australia. Look at the bright side, they keep driving land prices up so a guy can retire in style. Saw one parcel go for $3,900 per acre this spring. I quit looking over the fence decades ago. If you wonder how they do it, they probably aren't.

How did that ever turn out for the fellas who were crop sharing that stuff?

[grassfarmer]

I have been wondering about turning one of these leafcutter fields into bales for feed , what do you think? are we to far away ? dehy is another option , probably pay $80-$120 /ac ifn it rains at all ?
does anyone buy standing alfalfa or again are we to far away ?

Don't know your area or what the market is like for feed. If you get 3 bales/acre @1500lb @4c/lb that's $180/acre, allow $20/bale to get it made custom if you don't want to touch it yourself. Potentially $120/acre if the yield and weather cooperate but not without risk either. At 4c/lb you would have had guys prepared to haul it all over the prairies last year - most here was 6-8c/lb, a lot over 10c/lb in Alberta.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Don't know your area or what the market is like for feed. If you get 3 bales/acre @1500lb @4c/lb that's $180/acre, allow $20/bale to get it made custom if you don't want to touch it yourself. Potentially $120/acre if the yield and weather cooperate but not without risk either. At 4c/lb you would have had guys prepared to haul it all over the prairies last year - most here was 6-8c/lb, a lot over 10c/lb in Alberta.

Guys are in full panic mode around here about the feed situation, and how dry it is. Just got a call from auction mart still looking for hay, 160 to 180+ per bale ( and around here, it seems that a bale is a bale, regardless if it is 4 feet tall or 6'6" and tight). Might be able to remove some of the risk from that equation, and presell a portion of your production right now, while demand is still high. Bales are being trucked hundreds of miles.

[GDR]

Guys are in full panic mode around here about the feed situation, and how dry it is. Just got a call from auction mart still looking for hay, 160 to 180+ per bale ( and around here, it seems that a bale is a bale, regardless if it is 4 feet tall or 6'6" and tight). Might be able to remove some of the risk from that equation, and presell a portion of your production right now, while demand is still high. Bales are being trucked hundreds of miles.

I wonder how long it can go on though? Had 2 years of huge feed costs, would think if its dry again this year most without feed would be better off selling out. Even a few ponies might end up at the glue factory.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I wonder how long it can go on though? Had 2 years of huge feed costs, would think if its dry again this year most without feed would be better off selling out. Even a few ponies might end up at the glue factory.

That is what I keep hearing too. Can't pay those prices two years in a row, rather sell. Which is where you might find someone willing to hedge their bets for next year's feed at a price somewhere between long term average and today's, before the 2019 feed situation is known.

But as for the ponies, My neighbor, a well paid professional lady Took on a second job in retail driving an hour each way Just to feed her horses. Another is considering bankruptcy but still won't get rid of the ponies.

[grassfarmer]

Most seem to have squeaked through with just enough feed here. Bales being advertised now are being snapped up at 6-7c/lb. I thought it would have been 10c this spring. Grass is growing, but from a poor start given how abused most pastures were last year and how dry it continues to be. Seeding in full swing now all around.

[oldjim]

How did that ever turn out for the fellas who were crop sharing that stuff?

From what I heard the carryover leases were honoured, but not renewed. The owners are farming it themselves, seem to do a decent job.