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<blockquote data-quote="Stocker Steve" data-source="post: 1785166" data-attributes="member: 1715"><p>Depends on your skills and your profit goal:</p><p></p><p>1) If you are a high overhead DYI operation - - you need enough forage to cover your direct and OH costs. For me this was 3.1 tons/acre/year. You cannot afford to get cheap and harvest part of a crop. Question is how profitable is your high OH operation?</p><p>2) If you are a good cattle marketer - - you sell the haying equipment to buy some seasonal cattle, and then let them harvest the forage.</p><p>3) If you enjoy feeding - - you buy in hay and then unroll or bale feed it on the field to import fertility.</p><p>4) If you have a green thumb - - you can try to inter seed legumes or plant corn. Corn, beans, and Cancun boys have been doing well.</p><p>5) If you are a good networker and a good mechanic - - there is free stumpage in some areas.</p><p></p><p>Combination of the above...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stocker Steve, post: 1785166, member: 1715"] Depends on your skills and your profit goal: 1) If you are a high overhead DYI operation - - you need enough forage to cover your direct and OH costs. For me this was 3.1 tons/acre/year. You cannot afford to get cheap and harvest part of a crop. Question is how profitable is your high OH operation? 2) If you are a good cattle marketer - - you sell the haying equipment to buy some seasonal cattle, and then let them harvest the forage. 3) If you enjoy feeding - - you buy in hay and then unroll or bale feed it on the field to import fertility. 4) If you have a green thumb - - you can try to inter seed legumes or plant corn. Corn, beans, and Cancun boys have been doing well. 5) If you are a good networker and a good mechanic - - there is free stumpage in some areas. Combination of the above... [/QUOTE]
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