Potash is $900/ton locally - Fertilizer mix that is mostly potash for the alfalfa fields. Yikes! I am skipping the fields that are on their last year, and put the money into the newer better producing fields.
What do you think?
BTW - I've been a good steward when it comes to fertilizing. Except last year, we skipped it. I will not skip two years in a row. But for 30 acres - $4200 - I could buy a whole lot of hay that is in the paper....
But then what happens to my fields in the long run? None of these fields are totally fenced.... a couple have one side fenced. Too much time and too much money to put them into pasture....and they are alfalfa.
I don't feel like I have much of an option - - except to sell the cows and watch the fields grow up in box elders.
Michele
What do you think?
BTW - I've been a good steward when it comes to fertilizing. Except last year, we skipped it. I will not skip two years in a row. But for 30 acres - $4200 - I could buy a whole lot of hay that is in the paper....
But then what happens to my fields in the long run? None of these fields are totally fenced.... a couple have one side fenced. Too much time and too much money to put them into pasture....and they are alfalfa.
I don't feel like I have much of an option - - except to sell the cows and watch the fields grow up in box elders.
Michele