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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1808544" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>I haven't seen a recent cost analysis, but 15 years or so ago, ag economists at UofKY determined that if you're doing hay for your own use... unless you're running at least 600+ rolls through the equipment every season, you'd be money ahead either buying in all your hay or at least paying someone to hay it for you. </p><p>It would take a lifetime for me to have justified an $80K tractor PLUS hay equipment, when we had 80 cows... we opted to buy in all our hay... I had a full-time off-farm job, with no way to really accomodate the time to cut, rake and bale... so we just set up management-intensive grazing system and grazed everything for as long as grass was growing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1808544, member: 12607"] I haven't seen a recent cost analysis, but 15 years or so ago, ag economists at UofKY determined that if you're doing hay for your own use... unless you're running at least 600+ rolls through the equipment every season, you'd be money ahead either buying in all your hay or at least paying someone to hay it for you. It would take a lifetime for me to have justified an $80K tractor PLUS hay equipment, when we had 80 cows... we opted to buy in all our hay... I had a full-time off-farm job, with no way to really accomodate the time to cut, rake and bale... so we just set up management-intensive grazing system and grazed everything for as long as grass was growing. [/QUOTE]
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