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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1802322" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>Don't forget the land cost, and trucking. Nobody can do either for nothing. Around here, $300/acre for land is toward the bottom end now... so at your 4 rolls per acre, that alone is $75/bale. Storage (including plastic wrap?) = $15/bale, hauling bales off the field to storage (<a href="https://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/crops/pdf/a3-10.pdf" target="_blank">Iowa State Custom Rate Survery</a>) here gives that $3.45/bale. Baling with wrap = $14.75/bale. Mowing + raking = $25/acre, so $6.25/bale. All totaled, that comes to about $140........... <u>not including any fertilizer costs, or irrigation. And it's still not delivered, just sitting in the bale sellers storage.</u> </p><p></p><p>I get that hay has to pay through the cow........ so as cheap as possible is always the goal. But for the hay guy... the BALES have to pay through the input costs. I used to be in the hay business... but no more. I prefer to harvest as much as possible directly through the cattle of my own hay, and then rely on buying in whatever I might need above that. There's always gonna be "hay guys" that just don't want to have to deal with animals, and like playing with equipment. And just like us in the cattle industry, inevitably they end up being at the mercy of "the marketplace"... supply and demand. They just don't have to deal with the monopoly that is the meat packing industry today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1802322, member: 39018"] Don't forget the land cost, and trucking. Nobody can do either for nothing. Around here, $300/acre for land is toward the bottom end now... so at your 4 rolls per acre, that alone is $75/bale. Storage (including plastic wrap?) = $15/bale, hauling bales off the field to storage ([URL='https://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/crops/pdf/a3-10.pdf']Iowa State Custom Rate Survery[/URL]) here gives that $3.45/bale. Baling with wrap = $14.75/bale. Mowing + raking = $25/acre, so $6.25/bale. All totaled, that comes to about $140........... [U]not including any fertilizer costs, or irrigation. And it's still not delivered, just sitting in the bale sellers storage.[/U] I get that hay has to pay through the cow........ so as cheap as possible is always the goal. But for the hay guy... the BALES have to pay through the input costs. I used to be in the hay business... but no more. I prefer to harvest as much as possible directly through the cattle of my own hay, and then rely on buying in whatever I might need above that. There's always gonna be "hay guys" that just don't want to have to deal with animals, and like playing with equipment. And just like us in the cattle industry, inevitably they end up being at the mercy of "the marketplace"... supply and demand. They just don't have to deal with the monopoly that is the meat packing industry today. [/QUOTE]
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