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It is better to buy hay?
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<blockquote data-quote="fargus" data-source="post: 1024865" data-attributes="member: 13480"><p>I'll comment as a cow guy and the fertilizer salesman, seeing as I do both. When hay was cheap (3 cents/lb) and so was fertilizer, I'd have said you could probably do either, and be fine. When hay was still cheap, but fertilizer was climbing, skip the fertilizer and buy your neighbour's hay. Now that we have expensive hay (lots sold for 15 cents/lb around here last summer, and it's held it's value up to this point) I'd say inputs into your own crop pays. I can produce an 800 lb bale of hay for less than I can buy it for now. If I'm forced to buy in feed, it's likely going to be some combination of straw and by-products as I can feed a cow cheaper with those ingredients than with expensive dairy quality hay. If you can buy it for less than you can grow it, and import the fertility by way of purchased feed it's the obvious way to go. Unfortunately those economics don't work now like they did even 5 to 10 years ago.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fargus, post: 1024865, member: 13480"] I'll comment as a cow guy and the fertilizer salesman, seeing as I do both. When hay was cheap (3 cents/lb) and so was fertilizer, I'd have said you could probably do either, and be fine. When hay was still cheap, but fertilizer was climbing, skip the fertilizer and buy your neighbour's hay. Now that we have expensive hay (lots sold for 15 cents/lb around here last summer, and it's held it's value up to this point) I'd say inputs into your own crop pays. I can produce an 800 lb bale of hay for less than I can buy it for now. If I'm forced to buy in feed, it's likely going to be some combination of straw and by-products as I can feed a cow cheaper with those ingredients than with expensive dairy quality hay. If you can buy it for less than you can grow it, and import the fertility by way of purchased feed it's the obvious way to go. Unfortunately those economics don't work now like they did even 5 to 10 years ago. [/QUOTE]
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