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<blockquote data-quote="Fire Sweep Ranch" data-source="post: 1473339" data-attributes="member: 18809"><p>It's called being SMART with your money! As a "hobby farmer", I buy about 200 bales a year to feed in the winter. Farmer A has 5 x 6 for sale for $35 a bale, farmer B had the same size for sale for $40 a bale (or ton, which ever way you buy your hay). I test, and the $40 hay tests back at 14% protein versus the $35 hay comes back at 8%. Which is the better buy???? I can feed less, and not have to supplement the 14% hay. The 8% hay I will need to provide more nutrition than she can eat to get the adequate protein she needs as an early lactation 3-n-1. That extra supplementation cost money (tubs, ddg's, what ever you use), and TIME to put it out. I want my cows coming out of winter in just as good of condition as when they started on hay. I do not want to supplement. </p><p>We used to put up our own hay, but I still tested it. Now we run too many cows, and I have to buy my hay. Knowledge is power.</p><p></p><p> </p><p><a href="https://postimg.org/image/riemw9emd/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s18.postimg.org/riemw9emd/hay_test_2017.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fire Sweep Ranch, post: 1473339, member: 18809"] It's called being SMART with your money! As a "hobby farmer", I buy about 200 bales a year to feed in the winter. Farmer A has 5 x 6 for sale for $35 a bale, farmer B had the same size for sale for $40 a bale (or ton, which ever way you buy your hay). I test, and the $40 hay tests back at 14% protein versus the $35 hay comes back at 8%. Which is the better buy???? I can feed less, and not have to supplement the 14% hay. The 8% hay I will need to provide more nutrition than she can eat to get the adequate protein she needs as an early lactation 3-n-1. That extra supplementation cost money (tubs, ddg's, what ever you use), and TIME to put it out. I want my cows coming out of winter in just as good of condition as when they started on hay. I do not want to supplement. We used to put up our own hay, but I still tested it. Now we run too many cows, and I have to buy my hay. Knowledge is power. [url=https://postimg.org/image/riemw9emd/][img]https://s18.postimg.org/riemw9emd/hay_test_2017.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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