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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1557741" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>There seems to be fewer people making hay, and fewer places to make it on around here. Since we lost the 2 places last year, we were able to do a little better job with what we were making here closer with fighting the wet rainy conditions. But losing the heifer pasture and the 25-30 acres of just plain grass mixed hay will hurt. </p><p>We are renovating the one place we rent closeby, and will be putting in some more orchard grass in about an 7-8 acre strip that we have had grain sorghum in for 2 years. This field has been "divided" into 3 sections from the previous owner, and so we have kinda kept it that way. The one strip is getting alot of trash in it, so it will probably be the grain sorghum piece this year. We also have the option of a neighbor wanting some corn ground. May let him put corn in that section, get the weeds cleaned up and then put it back in orchard grass. There is another smaller 6+ acre field that is across a small creek, and it is getting alot of weeds. That will be the next one we renovate. </p><p>We pay a pretty high rent, but have the barns, working facilities, and all the other land that is in pasture. Unfortunately, the pastures are poor and even though we do fertilize, the one brother ran too many head for too many years and took way too much out of the land. We cannot afford to put them to rights, but try to improve them a little each year.</p><p></p><p> This is the farm that our friend died from cancer a few years back. In fact, it is 2 farms that the brothers farmed; one brother's side all pasture, the other brother had the barns and crop fields and a few smaller lots of a couple acres each. He did all the farming, and the brother with the pasture land just "rented" it to the brother that ran the cattle. Both brothers are gone, the widows won't sell, we tried, and the kids aren't going to farm it. Neither will rent to anyone else they say... so we pay more than we want, but "should" have it until the widows pass. It sits right along the interstate, and eventually will probably be sold by the heirs someday, and most likely some of it will go as commercial property. Hopefully not for a few more years. We can recoup our renovating costs within 2 years of each section with the improved fields of orchard grass in sales of the hay. Plus get the benefit of the grain sorghum silage. We also use sorghum/sudan grass to help renovate and get a good cutting off that and it makes pretty palatable feed for the cows. That's what I like to wrap if we can. Cows love it and it stretches the regular hay.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1557741, member: 25884"] There seems to be fewer people making hay, and fewer places to make it on around here. Since we lost the 2 places last year, we were able to do a little better job with what we were making here closer with fighting the wet rainy conditions. But losing the heifer pasture and the 25-30 acres of just plain grass mixed hay will hurt. We are renovating the one place we rent closeby, and will be putting in some more orchard grass in about an 7-8 acre strip that we have had grain sorghum in for 2 years. This field has been "divided" into 3 sections from the previous owner, and so we have kinda kept it that way. The one strip is getting alot of trash in it, so it will probably be the grain sorghum piece this year. We also have the option of a neighbor wanting some corn ground. May let him put corn in that section, get the weeds cleaned up and then put it back in orchard grass. There is another smaller 6+ acre field that is across a small creek, and it is getting alot of weeds. That will be the next one we renovate. We pay a pretty high rent, but have the barns, working facilities, and all the other land that is in pasture. Unfortunately, the pastures are poor and even though we do fertilize, the one brother ran too many head for too many years and took way too much out of the land. We cannot afford to put them to rights, but try to improve them a little each year. This is the farm that our friend died from cancer a few years back. In fact, it is 2 farms that the brothers farmed; one brother's side all pasture, the other brother had the barns and crop fields and a few smaller lots of a couple acres each. He did all the farming, and the brother with the pasture land just "rented" it to the brother that ran the cattle. Both brothers are gone, the widows won't sell, we tried, and the kids aren't going to farm it. Neither will rent to anyone else they say... so we pay more than we want, but "should" have it until the widows pass. It sits right along the interstate, and eventually will probably be sold by the heirs someday, and most likely some of it will go as commercial property. Hopefully not for a few more years. We can recoup our renovating costs within 2 years of each section with the improved fields of orchard grass in sales of the hay. Plus get the benefit of the grain sorghum silage. We also use sorghum/sudan grass to help renovate and get a good cutting off that and it makes pretty palatable feed for the cows. That's what I like to wrap if we can. Cows love it and it stretches the regular hay. [/QUOTE]
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