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Buying Hay vs. Growing Hay
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<blockquote data-quote="Cattle Rack Rancher" data-source="post: 34409" data-attributes="member: 245"><p>I think that unless you had access to a bunch of cheap, fertile, land that anybody who works full time would have a hard time justifying spending the money on equipment and the time to do their own baling. Maybe, I'm lucky, I've got a hay farmer about 2 miles from my place. Even in the years when there's a drought, I'm paying about $40.00 CDN per bale for top quality alfalfa and about $25.00 CDN for brome/alfalfa mix delivered and placed in my yard. It is way less risky to buy hay, then trying to schedule holiday time and hoping it doesn't rain when I want to make hay. If a guy was farming full time and doing some custom baling on the side, then maybe it would pay for the equipment. If you enjoy it, though, then you might consider it a hobby and you probably don't need to justify your time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cattle Rack Rancher, post: 34409, member: 245"] I think that unless you had access to a bunch of cheap, fertile, land that anybody who works full time would have a hard time justifying spending the money on equipment and the time to do their own baling. Maybe, I'm lucky, I've got a hay farmer about 2 miles from my place. Even in the years when there's a drought, I'm paying about $40.00 CDN per bale for top quality alfalfa and about $25.00 CDN for brome/alfalfa mix delivered and placed in my yard. It is way less risky to buy hay, then trying to schedule holiday time and hoping it doesn't rain when I want to make hay. If a guy was farming full time and doing some custom baling on the side, then maybe it would pay for the equipment. If you enjoy it, though, then you might consider it a hobby and you probably don't need to justify your time. [/QUOTE]
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