MR3":21dd8k3j said:
Aaron, You imply to put a value on pasture grass is nuts. To establish permanent pasture takes machinery and implements. My time, sweat and blood maybe free, but Diesel, fertilizer and seed aren't!
Rod
We are running on relatively native pasture. I would say to spend time seeding pastures is nuts, but I know many that do it. If you read my comments closer, you would realize that I said that fertilizer, (diesel), (seed), etc. are inputs which justify a value to grass. But in an unimproved native grass setting, I don't see a value. Also, unless you are seeding and fertilizing your pastures every few years or so (which I think is really nuts), then eventually (say in 5 years) your inputs spent in improving that pasture will have been paid for (heck, even add some interest). At that point, it is no longer justified to add that value to your grass.
Alan":21dd8k3j said:
MR3":21dd8k3j said:
Aaron, You imply to put a value on pasture grass is nuts. To establish permanent pasture takes machinery and implements. My time, sweat and blood maybe free, but Diesel, fertilizer and seed aren't!
Rod
I also feel that grass has value, wrap some string around it call it a bale.... seems to me that has a $ value.
Alan
Alan, read my comments. I agree, you wrap string around a bale, it then has value. Regardless, we are talking about pastures, not hay fields. In the point of producing hay, regardless of whether of not you seed and fertilize, hay begins to have a value at the point of cutting.
An example: someone gives you access to a 30 year old, 40 acre field to cut for hay, for free (He's an oldtimer that wants to clean up the fields). My argument here is that at this point, that hay has no value. As soon as you start to cut it, you then add the value of machinery/parts, fuel and labor.
My numbers:
Fertilizer: $4.24
Twine: $1.25
Fuel: $4.00
Labour: $10.00
Machinery/parts: $5.00
Which gives my 4x5 bales a value of $24.49/bale. Notice, I don't give grass a value anywhere in my calculations. :cowboy: