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<blockquote data-quote="dun" data-source="post: 25910" data-attributes="member: 34"><p>I concur with your figures. Most times you can buy very good quality hay for less then it costs to cut and bale it yourself. If you figure the cost of fertilizer, the hours, custom baling costs it would cost us about $2 per bale (5x5 round) more then I can buy it for. The idea of having the cattle do the haying has another benfit in as much that the fertilizer, except for a very small amount thats lost in reapplication by the cow, remains on the land that the product was grown on.</p><p>That being said, we hay about 60 acres twice, only because we don;t want to get so far back into the cow business that would be required to keep the fields/pastures in a vegative state. This winter we only fed 10 bales, and most of that was when the grass was starting to grow but I didn't want them to graze it so short as to damage the growing points.</p><p></p><p>dun</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dun, post: 25910, member: 34"] I concur with your figures. Most times you can buy very good quality hay for less then it costs to cut and bale it yourself. If you figure the cost of fertilizer, the hours, custom baling costs it would cost us about $2 per bale (5x5 round) more then I can buy it for. The idea of having the cattle do the haying has another benfit in as much that the fertilizer, except for a very small amount thats lost in reapplication by the cow, remains on the land that the product was grown on. That being said, we hay about 60 acres twice, only because we don;t want to get so far back into the cow business that would be required to keep the fields/pastures in a vegative state. This winter we only fed 10 bales, and most of that was when the grass was starting to grow but I didn't want them to graze it so short as to damage the growing points. dun [/QUOTE]
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