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<blockquote data-quote="alabama" data-source="post: 251040" data-attributes="member: 2218"><p>Hay is short in Alabama this year. I have cut one time this year and got about ½ what I normally get in a cutting. I am hopping for at least one more cutting if I can get a few more showers. That will leave me with one and ½ cuttings for the summer. In a good year, we can get a good four cuttings. I have spent the same on fertilizer as a good year and I still have all the equipment even though I have not used it much this year. My input cost is close to the same as a good year but my product is at 35%. So it would be easy to figure that I will need to get 3 times as much for my product to cover the cost. I sell rolls for $30 last year so 3 times 30 is 90. Well I just can't sell to folks at $90 a roll and I don't have any to sell any way. I fed most of my first cutting and need the last cutting to try to get through the winter. </p><p>What I have done so far is to sell a few rolls to keep good customers at the rate of $35 a roll. This has helped them keep the cows this summer and buy time for some rain. However, I told them all that I would not have any winter hay for them this year and they needed to find another source. I suppose if some of these people get in a bad bind this winter I will let them have a roll if possible just to be neighborly. </p><p>But back to the point, in drought hay at $100 a roll ain't jipping people it is selling hay for what it is worth. And remember that by not selling my hay and feeding it to my cows it is costing me $100 a roll to feed too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alabama, post: 251040, member: 2218"] Hay is short in Alabama this year. I have cut one time this year and got about ½ what I normally get in a cutting. I am hopping for at least one more cutting if I can get a few more showers. That will leave me with one and ½ cuttings for the summer. In a good year, we can get a good four cuttings. I have spent the same on fertilizer as a good year and I still have all the equipment even though I have not used it much this year. My input cost is close to the same as a good year but my product is at 35%. So it would be easy to figure that I will need to get 3 times as much for my product to cover the cost. I sell rolls for $30 last year so 3 times 30 is 90. Well I just can’t sell to folks at $90 a roll and I don’t have any to sell any way. I fed most of my first cutting and need the last cutting to try to get through the winter. What I have done so far is to sell a few rolls to keep good customers at the rate of $35 a roll. This has helped them keep the cows this summer and buy time for some rain. However, I told them all that I would not have any winter hay for them this year and they needed to find another source. I suppose if some of these people get in a bad bind this winter I will let them have a roll if possible just to be neighborly. But back to the point, in drought hay at $100 a roll ain’t jipping people it is selling hay for what it is worth. And remember that by not selling my hay and feeding it to my cows it is costing me $100 a roll to feed too. [/QUOTE]
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