Hay Buyers Phoning Around?

[sumdumguy]

If it doesn’t start raining soon, hay could be at a premium.

[Taiga]

If it doesn’t start raining soon, hay could be at a premium.

Hope so, I will have a few thousand big rounds.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

If any hay buyers come looking for sympathy this year because we have a drought, they won't get any sympathy from me. This winter has been a once in probably 10 year event to be able to stock up on hay at way below even the cost of production. I have one neighbor buying everything he can get cheap enough and carrying it over.
No excuse not to be doing so for anyone else.
And if it stays this dry, the bales will still be in perfect shape, almost no rain on them since they were put up, very little snow. Ideal conditions to store bales an extra year.

[makar]

If any hay buyers come looking for sympathy this year because we have a drought, they won't get any sympathy from me. This winter has been a once in probably 10 year event to be able to stock up on hay at way below even the cost of production. I have one neighbor buying everything he can get cheap enough and carrying it over.
No excuse not to be doing so for anyone else.
And if it stays this dry, the bales will still be in perfect shape, almost no rain on them since they were put up, very little snow. Ideal conditions to store bales an extra year.

Hay buyers are the reason i stopped selling hay.

[GDR]

Hay buyers are the reason i stopped selling hay.

I agree but at the same time hay sellers are just as bad. One farmer will undercut the neighbors price below cop just to make a sale. And then the other end of the spectrum is the guys gouging neighbors in a tough spot needing feed. My theory has been I need a certain dollar value per acre and translate that to a per pound or bale price.

[makar]

I agree but at the same time hay sellers are just as bad. One farmer will undercut the neighbors price below cop just to make a sale. And then the other end of the spectrum is the guys gouging neighbors in a tough spot needing feed. My theory has been I need a certain dollar value per acre and translate that to a per pound or bale price.

Not like that here.

[Old Cowzilla]

No extra hay around these parts for years so most guys happy if they find any at any price. Most guys grow corn now to cover feed supply whether buy grazing or silage. Dairy guys only ones with major hay ground acres now.

[FarmJunkie]

Have some Timothy left for sale but no one interested yet

[woodland]

Ma Nature has been known to get temperamental here at times. There’s 15,000 tons of silage tucked away here as an insurance policy. Takes the stress away from times like these. Might be starting field work before the end of the month.............. I guess we better get the disk fixed up. Never contemplated let alone done it in March. No runoff at all here. Normally dealing with snowdrifts and or mud instead of dust this time of year. Fun times.

It is what it is. 😉

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Ma Nature has been known to get temperamental here at times. There’s 15,000 tons of silage tucked away here as an insurance policy. Takes the stress away from times like these. Might be starting field work before the end of the month.............. I guess we better get the disk fixed up. Never contemplated let alone done it in March. No runoff at all here. Normally dealing with snowdrifts and or mud instead of dust this time of year. Fun times.

It is what it is. 😉

You might just have the opportunity of a lifetime to custom feed cows next winter.

Earliest Dad ever got in the field was April 10th, late 70's I think. harrowing a hillside, neighbor saw that and had to do one better, so he went cultivating and got royally stuck. April 10 has sounded like a pipe dream for as long as I can remember. Never turned a wheel in April in my time. Could easily happen this year.
That said, it is snowing as I type.