dun":3cyqciud said:Caustic Burno":3cyqciud said:I haven't put a pencil to it this year, but I bet its close to 25 bucks, fertilizer at 300 a ton diesel at 2.50 a gallon not counting bailing twine and maintainence. Custom bailers are getting 25 a roll here and they have no fertilizer cost in the operation and that is a 20 roll minimum on a field.
The only field we baled that I can actually figure the cost on produced 44 1000 lb bales and used 47 gallons of diesel for cutting, tedding, raking, not sure about the baling because the neighbor came in and baled while I went and raked his field. The other fields are small odd shaed things that don;t take refueling to do several of them so I can;t figure out what they fuel costs are. I've got to be missing something here, seems like it used to run around 6-7 bucks a bale to bale it. Sure beats the $38 a bale I paid to have stuff shipped in last year, even it they are 1500 lb bales.
dun
Dun,
Quit trying to apply logic to this, CB said it wasnt worth it and its not worth it. lol
As another post said about hay, when its dry beggars cant be chosers. You take what the lord gives you or you sell your cattle. Poor is better than none, I wonder how many people in this drought didnt bail "poor" fields because you could buy it cheaper and ended up paying 60 bucks a roll for sorry hay? Hindsite is ALWAYS 20/20
MD