i dont know were yall come from but there is still a few honest hay farmers around like myself.I sold my hay for 40 a bale. when my neighbor is gettin 85 a bale. But i remember when i didnt have nothin commin out of high school feedin a few horses and calves we had a dry year and they were gettin a 100 a bale. Right then i vowed if i ever got in the hay business that i would take care of people like myself. We got a sayin about this sort of thing i call it a 'do gooder' Do gooders never win but i can sleep at night. i dont know if im stupid or not but people always com back to buy more hay.
I am a Do Gooder also, a do gooder for my family and my stock. Including fertilizer and baling I have $175/ bale in my hay this year. Yeah that is not a misprint, made a whopping .6 bales to the acre. So does that mean that I need to sell my hay for 40/ bale. The market is up because the cost is up and the supply is down. Due to no rain. I have raised hay, jockeyed hay, custom farmed. My margin was always the same. Just because the hay is 100/ roll doesnt mean the people selling it are making a killing. They are probably actually losing money. Not trying to be a D**K, just saying if the farmers were to "help" everybody out, then they wouldnt be in business long.
Austin, I was going to say the same thing. With the taxes on our land, the cost of fertilizer, the cost of paying hands to help put it out, spray the fields for army worms and weeds, cost of the tractors, equipment, and the diesel it takes to keep them going all day, cost of barns to put the hay in, time it takes to put it up, lack of rain and the fact that our cows still have to have enough hay to eat and we need money to feed ourselves... I'll be D*MNED is someone is gunna say I'm not an honest farmer! I'm starvin to death! I work 24/7 in the oilfield so I can afford to make hay!
