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<blockquote data-quote="Suzie Q" data-source="post: 859046" data-attributes="member: 14334"><p>I am afraid I have to agree with above. </p><p></p><p>There are those who spend money on their land and their equipment, so as they can make their own feed and have enough water to get through a drought.</p><p></p><p>There are those who go out and buy cattle, without buying any equipment at all. </p><p></p><p>So in a drought those that you think that we should all be helping for free are those who have not thought ahead. After this drought, they will either learn and think ahead or they will not have cattle at all, or they will expect a hand out with the next drought. Or they will manage it with the selling of the herd and buying back. You choose which one you wish to be in.</p><p></p><p>We chose to be the former. We put down a new bore and when everyone else ran out of water we still had water coming out of that bore. </p><p></p><p>We bought a round baler and kept the bales and did not sell them. We have now made it to Spring and it has rained. We will make hay again soon and when we do it will be to replenish our stores before we think of selling hay to anyone else.</p><p></p><p>If I had given our hay away to people who needed it, they would not have bought hay for me at a higher price when I needed it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Suzie Q, post: 859046, member: 14334"] I am afraid I have to agree with above. There are those who spend money on their land and their equipment, so as they can make their own feed and have enough water to get through a drought. There are those who go out and buy cattle, without buying any equipment at all. So in a drought those that you think that we should all be helping for free are those who have not thought ahead. After this drought, they will either learn and think ahead or they will not have cattle at all, or they will expect a hand out with the next drought. Or they will manage it with the selling of the herd and buying back. You choose which one you wish to be in. We chose to be the former. We put down a new bore and when everyone else ran out of water we still had water coming out of that bore. We bought a round baler and kept the bales and did not sell them. We have now made it to Spring and it has rained. We will make hay again soon and when we do it will be to replenish our stores before we think of selling hay to anyone else. If I had given our hay away to people who needed it, they would not have bought hay for me at a higher price when I needed it. [/QUOTE]
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