Stocker Steve
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Craig Miller":2wrhahi6 said:My time is worth something. Seems like I'd be better off to invest in a bigger barn. Buy hay year round when I can find good hay at good prices and stack it away in the barn. You could also build up a little stock pile for droughts. Does anybody do it that way?
Majority think meadow grass hay is fine for cows and hay barns just attract tax assessors. Often true, but these same folks have to buy $100 per bale hay in a drought.
Tarping hay is often the cheapest approach, with shed storage coming in second. Wrapping hay is a growing trend here, but the wrap is only designed to last months.
I like alfalfa/grass or clover/grass hay for heifers and lactating cows. I have been stockpiling about 50% of my annual usage. How much stockpile do you think is just right?