farmerjan
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Son is going to put another 20 acres into orchard grass for next year as the sq bale demand is up and we can make more money on them. A couple of the places are leased land but long term, and no fences or water so not able to graze them... we have put the cows out on places that we can do more grazing and making less hay... many places we are haying only the first cutting off one section of the rotational grazing sections, to utilize the surplus spring growth...We're rotating, grazing the hay meadows, we're not going to make any more hay this year, since we started feeding hay about a month ago on this place it doesn't make sense to pay to bale it when the cows can do it themselves, we don't have enough time to get the growth since we just started getting rain and the nights are starting to cool.
I've been having to force myself to stay away from the sale barns because at the moment we are full.
We're planning on selling 40-50 calves next month and about 20 cows or more.
We're thinking about turning a lot more land into hay fields and make a lot of square bales for sale?
lots of plowing/dragging and hog fencing to do before that will happen.
LUCKILY we do not have to deal with the hogs like you do further south. I watch some of the videos that pop up on the hog hunting and the huge numbers of them... cannot even imagine them... at least the da%#@ deer here only graze it off, not dig it up....
I look at a few of the posts that @Caustic Burno puts up of the ones he traps... holy cow....