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<blockquote data-quote="TexasRancher" data-source="post: 1768481" data-attributes="member: 8359"><p><strong>FSR></strong> Your commentary was an eye opener. I'm not a big fan of hay producers selling hay high in nitrites and not accepting returns. I feel your pain. I made the decision to carry my small group over winter with grazing, whole corn and protein cubes and an assortment of expired apples, oranges, potatoes, cabbage, carrots, lemons, bananas....I'm boycotting hay and the high prices. After the 8" of rain in late August (singular rain storm after drought)...the hay producers here got their second and even third cutting in and even were baling the little strips near roadside and really poor fields of wild grasses....but their prices did not come down. I'm not going to worry cattle are stout and forgiving....and i believe by late January into February hay prices will come down substantially when the hay producers see their lots clogged with bales. Currently they are saturated in hay bails for $100. to $120. and corn bails $60. to $65 ...they can keep them, not many people are buying them. Whole corn is less expensive....and even when it's a wash price wise...I'd still buy the corn and cubes to boycott and keep my cattle safe from low quality hay with nitrites. I feel good every month that goes by...it's a 12 bale $1,200. cost victory I'm not participating in.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasRancher, post: 1768481, member: 8359"] [B]FSR>[/B] Your commentary was an eye opener. I'm not a big fan of hay producers selling hay high in nitrites and not accepting returns. I feel your pain. I made the decision to carry my small group over winter with grazing, whole corn and protein cubes and an assortment of expired apples, oranges, potatoes, cabbage, carrots, lemons, bananas....I'm boycotting hay and the high prices. After the 8" of rain in late August (singular rain storm after drought)...the hay producers here got their second and even third cutting in and even were baling the little strips near roadside and really poor fields of wild grasses....but their prices did not come down. I'm not going to worry cattle are stout and forgiving....and i believe by late January into February hay prices will come down substantially when the hay producers see their lots clogged with bales. Currently they are saturated in hay bails for $100. to $120. and corn bails $60. to $65 ...they can keep them, not many people are buying them. Whole corn is less expensive....and even when it's a wash price wise...I'd still buy the corn and cubes to boycott and keep my cattle safe from low quality hay with nitrites. I feel good every month that goes by...it's a 12 bale $1,200. cost victory I'm not participating in. [/QUOTE]
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