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Hay prices not going down?
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<blockquote data-quote="MoGal" data-source="post: 333272" data-attributes="member: 1346"><p>I don't think hay prices will go down for the fact that mother nature dictates whether you have a good crop or not (lets face it, very few people have the setup for irrigation). I don't think the drought situation is gonna change very much (drought may not be in Texas and Oklahoma but could be somewhere else).</p><p></p><p>Although hay seems plentiful in this area, no one got the same yield as they did the year before.</p><p></p><p>Fertilizer is going up.</p><p></p><p>Hay crops are being turned into corn crops (more profitable).</p><p></p><p>I read where a cotton farm in Mississippi is planting 3500 acres in corn this year and I'm sure there are plenty others who are/will be switching over to corn. </p><p></p><p>We're planting a small patch of alfalfa/orchard grass hay (15 acres) but the family has the equipment already (square baler instead of round baler so I will have to see about either having it custom baled or using someone else's baler). Next year we will buy our own round baler. </p><p></p><p>I figure we will need 120 round bales (900-1000 lb bales) to start out for next winter as we fed 44 round bales from Thanksgiving to 12/31 and even though it only cost $28.00 per bale that's too much expense and we'll have better quality hay(growing our own) than just feeding fescue hay. </p><p></p><p></p><p>But like any crop, mother nature has to cooperate to get it planted and harvested.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MoGal, post: 333272, member: 1346"] I don't think hay prices will go down for the fact that mother nature dictates whether you have a good crop or not (lets face it, very few people have the setup for irrigation). I don't think the drought situation is gonna change very much (drought may not be in Texas and Oklahoma but could be somewhere else). Although hay seems plentiful in this area, no one got the same yield as they did the year before. Fertilizer is going up. Hay crops are being turned into corn crops (more profitable). I read where a cotton farm in Mississippi is planting 3500 acres in corn this year and I'm sure there are plenty others who are/will be switching over to corn. We're planting a small patch of alfalfa/orchard grass hay (15 acres) but the family has the equipment already (square baler instead of round baler so I will have to see about either having it custom baled or using someone else's baler). Next year we will buy our own round baler. I figure we will need 120 round bales (900-1000 lb bales) to start out for next winter as we fed 44 round bales from Thanksgiving to 12/31 and even though it only cost $28.00 per bale that's too much expense and we'll have better quality hay(growing our own) than just feeding fescue hay. But like any crop, mother nature has to cooperate to get it planted and harvested. [/QUOTE]
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