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HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH FOR HAY ?
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<blockquote data-quote="backhoeboogie" data-source="post: 451988" data-attributes="member: 3162"><p>It all depends. There are times when $20 aint enough. </p><p></p><p>The only people I know that buy small squares are horse people and they want to buy 5 to 10 bales at a time. </p><p></p><p>If you have $3 a bale in it for irrigation, $3 a bale in it for fertilizer, $1 a bale in it because you got lucky a found someone with a square baler who happened to be available when the grass was at its optimum time. You are $7 in it. </p><p></p><p>You have hauled it to the barn. Some horse lady calls and wants you to shut down what you are working on, meet her at the highway so she can follow you in, and wants 10 bales. You'd be better off to load it up and haul it to her. At $15 a bale it is not worth the time and trouble. </p><p></p><p>This year you can cut $3 a bale because we did not irrigate. But it was so doggone wet that by the time you could bale, it was not "horse quality". If you could have, the feed stores would have bought it for $6 if you hauled it to them. </p><p></p><p>$5 a bale in the field would have neeted you $1 a bale this year for cow hay. You would have had to find some one to bale it for you. No cow people want square bales that I know of. Not in any quantity anyway. Maybe 20 or so in case there is an ice storm. </p><p></p><p>I am already stuck with over 500 round bales. Why the heck would I want to be stuck with 5000 squares that would have to be put in the barn and can't be sold as horse quality?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="backhoeboogie, post: 451988, member: 3162"] It all depends. There are times when $20 aint enough. The only people I know that buy small squares are horse people and they want to buy 5 to 10 bales at a time. If you have $3 a bale in it for irrigation, $3 a bale in it for fertilizer, $1 a bale in it because you got lucky a found someone with a square baler who happened to be available when the grass was at its optimum time. You are $7 in it. You have hauled it to the barn. Some horse lady calls and wants you to shut down what you are working on, meet her at the highway so she can follow you in, and wants 10 bales. You'd be better off to load it up and haul it to her. At $15 a bale it is not worth the time and trouble. This year you can cut $3 a bale because we did not irrigate. But it was so doggone wet that by the time you could bale, it was not "horse quality". If you could have, the feed stores would have bought it for $6 if you hauled it to them. $5 a bale in the field would have neeted you $1 a bale this year for cow hay. You would have had to find some one to bale it for you. No cow people want square bales that I know of. Not in any quantity anyway. Maybe 20 or so in case there is an ice storm. I am already stuck with over 500 round bales. Why the heck would I want to be stuck with 5000 squares that would have to be put in the barn and can't be sold as horse quality? [/QUOTE]
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