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<blockquote data-quote="Alan" data-source="post: 467550" data-attributes="member: 378"><p>I thought I had left this post for bigger and better things.... "just when I think I'm out they pull me back in again" (godfather 3 I think) <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> </p><p></p><p>Most of the hay growers in my area do not fertilize, some do. It's just a feild grass mixture, canary grass, fetch, clover, and other grasses (not sure what's in it). It may be junk, but the cows like it and they come through in the spring in very good shape and throw a healthly calf with lots of vigor. I winter on feild grass and minerals, and worm twice a year. I have no complaints about the quaility of the local hay.</p><p></p><p>My problem is with a guy wanting to jack the price 400% in one year for feild grass. As stated before one of my past suppliers just had an ad in the paper for local feild grass, $8 per 60lb bale ($266 per ton). I can and have driven 2 hours to eastern Oregon, where they do grow some of the best hay around, it's fertilized, weed control and they irragate and get 3 to 4 cuttings a year off it.... It's mostly horse hay, but it's currently going for $165 to $175 per ton. I haul 5 ton at a time, It cost me about $100 in fuel and a days time..... and a sore back. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> (yes I would be considered a hobby guy). I fed a few tons of that last year, during the legit shortage, the only problem I had is trying to get the cattle back on the local hay... It's like eating Filets and Prime Rib and have to go back to a Big Mac.</p><p></p><p>Alan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alan, post: 467550, member: 378"] I thought I had left this post for bigger and better things.... "just when I think I'm out they pull me back in again" (godfather 3 I think) :D Most of the hay growers in my area do not fertilize, some do. It's just a feild grass mixture, canary grass, fetch, clover, and other grasses (not sure what's in it). It may be junk, but the cows like it and they come through in the spring in very good shape and throw a healthly calf with lots of vigor. I winter on feild grass and minerals, and worm twice a year. I have no complaints about the quaility of the local hay. My problem is with a guy wanting to jack the price 400% in one year for feild grass. As stated before one of my past suppliers just had an ad in the paper for local feild grass, $8 per 60lb bale ($266 per ton). I can and have driven 2 hours to eastern Oregon, where they do grow some of the best hay around, it's fertilized, weed control and they irragate and get 3 to 4 cuttings a year off it.... It's mostly horse hay, but it's currently going for $165 to $175 per ton. I haul 5 ton at a time, It cost me about $100 in fuel and a days time..... and a sore back. :D (yes I would be considered a hobby guy). I fed a few tons of that last year, during the legit shortage, the only problem I had is trying to get the cattle back on the local hay... It's like eating Filets and Prime Rib and have to go back to a Big Mac. Alan [/QUOTE]
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