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<blockquote data-quote="Otha" data-source="post: 1734553" data-attributes="member: 41397"><p>Here I think 3 year old hay is as old as I would want. If it was stored right. Even then it's going have lost 1/4-1/3 of it's weight. We always feed the oldest first if we can and rotate the new hay in. </p><p></p><p>I was working on kicking the hay habit but If you have decent calf prices and cheap hay prices like we have seen recently it's a little more profitable to feed a little hay. I really like hauling the nutrients from the hay onto my pasture too. $80/ton hay of decent quality means you can feed a cow for less than $1.50 a day. Feeding for 120 days would be $180 which leaves a fair amount for the rest of the year if calves average $750. I won't be buying any high dollar cows but some sell barn stuff makes money on my spreadsheet at current calf and hay prices.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Otha, post: 1734553, member: 41397"] Here I think 3 year old hay is as old as I would want. If it was stored right. Even then it's going have lost 1/4-1/3 of it's weight. We always feed the oldest first if we can and rotate the new hay in. I was working on kicking the hay habit but If you have decent calf prices and cheap hay prices like we have seen recently it's a little more profitable to feed a little hay. I really like hauling the nutrients from the hay onto my pasture too. $80/ton hay of decent quality means you can feed a cow for less than $1.50 a day. Feeding for 120 days would be $180 which leaves a fair amount for the rest of the year if calves average $750. I won't be buying any high dollar cows but some sell barn stuff makes money on my spreadsheet at current calf and hay prices. [/QUOTE]
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