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<blockquote data-quote="Chris H" data-source="post: 445077" data-attributes="member: 1974"><p>I haven't said very much about the high cost of hay. The local hay is selling for the same amount that shipped in hay is going for. The local guys don't have as much to sell as usual, so they're not raking in fistfuls of money. The cost of shipped in hay is mostly to cover transportation, so that hay farmer is not raking in fistfuls of money, either. So, we are trying to come up with the cheapest ration using corn stalks and by-products.</p><p>I will say I have seen one ad that I think the man is gouging, if he gets a buyer. He was offering his double crop soybeans at $225/acre, buyer bales it. I haven't seen a field in our county that would make a ton/acre of double crop soybean hay, and he is in our county. We have a neighbor that cut his first crop beans as hay, made about 1700 lbs/acre. Insurance adjuster estimated they would have made 3 bu/acre. I don't know of any doublecrop beans around here that will do better than that this year. All I can say about the guy asking $225/acre is this: what goes around, comes around.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chris H, post: 445077, member: 1974"] I haven't said very much about the high cost of hay. The local hay is selling for the same amount that shipped in hay is going for. The local guys don't have as much to sell as usual, so they're not raking in fistfuls of money. The cost of shipped in hay is mostly to cover transportation, so that hay farmer is not raking in fistfuls of money, either. So, we are trying to come up with the cheapest ration using corn stalks and by-products. I will say I have seen one ad that I think the man is gouging, if he gets a buyer. He was offering his double crop soybeans at $225/acre, buyer bales it. I haven't seen a field in our county that would make a ton/acre of double crop soybean hay, and he is in our county. We have a neighbor that cut his first crop beans as hay, made about 1700 lbs/acre. Insurance adjuster estimated they would have made 3 bu/acre. I don't know of any doublecrop beans around here that will do better than that this year. All I can say about the guy asking $225/acre is this: what goes around, comes around. [/QUOTE]
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