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<blockquote data-quote="CottageFarm" data-source="post: 899277" data-attributes="member: 16552"><p>Lon, alot of the hay being sold here right now is from SD, NE, & MT. Tell him to just bring it here for the next auction. If it's good stuff, he'll get about what he's asking. Alot of what was grown here was shipped South last Summer. We didn't have a drought here, but Southern Colorado did, and of course all other points South. </p><p>Your friends $200/tn sounds good until you factor in the fuel costs, drivers' time, and if it goes thru the auction, profits for them too. I don't begrudge everyone making their profits. Hay producers don't get many years where they can actually make some money. </p><p>People are paying the prices because they have to. There are lots of people, like me, who don't need all that much hay to begin with. So buying from out of state won't work for us. Right now I only use about 3 tn year, and I haven't been willing to expand because of the price of feed. And we can't handle big bales. 3x3's are the biggest we can handle. And you'll notice in the auction results that the smaller bales are really sky high. 4x4's and rounds are a little more reasonable. And then, of course, the horsey people factor in. They'll pay pretty much anything that's asked, because alot of them around here can. </p><p>It's all just supply & demand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CottageFarm, post: 899277, member: 16552"] Lon, alot of the hay being sold here right now is from SD, NE, & MT. Tell him to just bring it here for the next auction. If it's good stuff, he'll get about what he's asking. Alot of what was grown here was shipped South last Summer. We didn't have a drought here, but Southern Colorado did, and of course all other points South. Your friends $200/tn sounds good until you factor in the fuel costs, drivers' time, and if it goes thru the auction, profits for them too. I don't begrudge everyone making their profits. Hay producers don't get many years where they can actually make some money. People are paying the prices because they have to. There are lots of people, like me, who don't need all that much hay to begin with. So buying from out of state won't work for us. Right now I only use about 3 tn year, and I haven't been willing to expand because of the price of feed. And we can't handle big bales. 3x3's are the biggest we can handle. And you'll notice in the auction results that the smaller bales are really sky high. 4x4's and rounds are a little more reasonable. And then, of course, the horsey people factor in. They'll pay pretty much anything that's asked, because alot of them around here can. It's all just supply & demand. [/QUOTE]
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