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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1612367" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>That whole buying hay as opposed to making it really depends on where you are located. I am located in the middle of thousands and thousands of acres of irrigated hay. But it still depends on the year. Some years there is extra hay and it gets real cheap (3 years ago). Some years there is a shortage and it gets real expensive (last winter). Where Gcreek (also named Dave) is located it makes no sense at all. Any purchased hay is a long ways away and the cost of freight is a killer. Some years back I went to a grazing workshop out of Ellensburg, WA. We toured a ranch (also owned by a man named Dave) that bought all there hay. But they were right by a huge hay export yard. They bought the export kick out bales cheap. They don't export anything with a blemish but cow eat it just fine. He had a 3 year rotation on feeding hay on his pastures. Between legumes and imported hay he purchased no fertilizer and had great looking pastures. Anyone thinking that one size fits all is totally wrong. It is a big world out there with lots of differences. One bit of advise I picked up from another grazing workshop is that everyone has an unfair advantage. The challenge or secret is to figure out what your unfair advantage is and capitalizing on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1612367, member: 498"] That whole buying hay as opposed to making it really depends on where you are located. I am located in the middle of thousands and thousands of acres of irrigated hay. But it still depends on the year. Some years there is extra hay and it gets real cheap (3 years ago). Some years there is a shortage and it gets real expensive (last winter). Where Gcreek (also named Dave) is located it makes no sense at all. Any purchased hay is a long ways away and the cost of freight is a killer. Some years back I went to a grazing workshop out of Ellensburg, WA. We toured a ranch (also owned by a man named Dave) that bought all there hay. But they were right by a huge hay export yard. They bought the export kick out bales cheap. They don't export anything with a blemish but cow eat it just fine. He had a 3 year rotation on feeding hay on his pastures. Between legumes and imported hay he purchased no fertilizer and had great looking pastures. Anyone thinking that one size fits all is totally wrong. It is a big world out there with lots of differences. One bit of advise I picked up from another grazing workshop is that everyone has an unfair advantage. The challenge or secret is to figure out what your unfair advantage is and capitalizing on it. [/QUOTE]
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