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<blockquote data-quote="Bright Raven" data-source="post: 1515141" data-attributes="member: 27490"><p>Not out here in Missouri. A farmer my age came over yesterday with a big hydraulic manure spreader to move a manure pile onto pasture. He is one of those guys who has been squeezing a few bucks out of cattle since he hit the ground. Not like those of us who play on cattle today. He probably has never been on the internet. He says the hay situation is complicated. First, we had a late winter. Then it went right into mid summer. The weather for first cutting was a disaster. First cutting was half what it averages. Some let first cutting go, hoping it would fill in. Now they are harvesting that first cutting and it is crap. Some are selling it at above average prices because producers are trying to recover their low yeilds by buying. Some are bringing hay in at great expense in cost and transportation. He said for these folks local - it is as bad as he has seen it.</p><p></p><p>Edited to add: prospects going forward are even more dire- it is as dry as a bone here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bright Raven, post: 1515141, member: 27490"] Not out here in Missouri. A farmer my age came over yesterday with a big hydraulic manure spreader to move a manure pile onto pasture. He is one of those guys who has been squeezing a few bucks out of cattle since he hit the ground. Not like those of us who play on cattle today. He probably has never been on the internet. He says the hay situation is complicated. First, we had a late winter. Then it went right into mid summer. The weather for first cutting was a disaster. First cutting was half what it averages. Some let first cutting go, hoping it would fill in. Now they are harvesting that first cutting and it is crap. Some are selling it at above average prices because producers are trying to recover their low yeilds by buying. Some are bringing hay in at great expense in cost and transportation. He said for these folks local - it is as bad as he has seen it. Edited to add: prospects going forward are even more dire- it is as dry as a bone here. [/QUOTE]
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