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USDA hay production vs AUM numbers
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<blockquote data-quote="Stocker Steve" data-source="post: 1234046" data-attributes="member: 1715"><p>Averages are not very useful. Hay production here ranges from 1.5 to 5.5 tons per acre. Some of that variation is drainage, some of that is soil health management.</p><p></p><p>We have a lot of "cheap" low ph poorly drained land in this area. Outside money comes in periodically and buys a couple farms. The English guys who try to crop it don't last, but the Amish usually do.The latest is another wave of Amish from Wisconsin. They sell $3000 land in Wisconsin and then use the equity to pay down $2000 land in Minnesota. I assume that since they are usually going to an Organic dairy they can graze the meadows and make a low debt - - low cost of living - - operation cash flow. Beef can also cash flow land at today's prices but I don't think that the beef prices will last.</p><p></p><p>Now if I could just get the wife to start milking some cows by hand... :cowboy:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stocker Steve, post: 1234046, member: 1715"] Averages are not very useful. Hay production here ranges from 1.5 to 5.5 tons per acre. Some of that variation is drainage, some of that is soil health management. We have a lot of "cheap" low ph poorly drained land in this area. Outside money comes in periodically and buys a couple farms. The English guys who try to crop it don't last, but the Amish usually do.The latest is another wave of Amish from Wisconsin. They sell $3000 land in Wisconsin and then use the equity to pay down $2000 land in Minnesota. I assume that since they are usually going to an Organic dairy they can graze the meadows and make a low debt - - low cost of living - - operation cash flow. Beef can also cash flow land at today's prices but I don't think that the beef prices will last. Now if I could just get the wife to start milking some cows by hand... :cowboy: [/QUOTE]
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