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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 274844" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>That has really been my point all along. One of my best friends retired from the experiment station and he worked with grasses all his life. He was a good man and he taught me a lot about hay and the nutrional quality. I was just trying to find out how many on this board actually cared enough about the actual nutrional quality of the hay they use in their operation. He taught me how to grow what he called "feed hay". With this, you need nothing else during the winter months. The problem though is that a person could not grow this quality hay and sell it for very much of a profit. I have watched contract hay people grow hay and just wondered what "good" hay actually is. Until I made this post, I would call most of the hay I see selling for $28 - $35 a roll around here - not good hay. But now I think I see why he called it "feed hay". So from now on I have my own definition of the types of hay - 1. filler hay 2. good hay 3. Feed hay</p><p></p><p>The zebra is my neighbors. He likes to buy different things like that. I like it too but don't turn your back on her! He's also got buffalo and a bunch of other neat stuff along with about 800 head. I like to go by there every now and then cause you never know what he is going to drag up on the cattle trailer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 274844, member: 4362"] That has really been my point all along. One of my best friends retired from the experiment station and he worked with grasses all his life. He was a good man and he taught me a lot about hay and the nutrional quality. I was just trying to find out how many on this board actually cared enough about the actual nutrional quality of the hay they use in their operation. He taught me how to grow what he called "feed hay". With this, you need nothing else during the winter months. The problem though is that a person could not grow this quality hay and sell it for very much of a profit. I have watched contract hay people grow hay and just wondered what "good" hay actually is. Until I made this post, I would call most of the hay I see selling for $28 - $35 a roll around here - not good hay. But now I think I see why he called it "feed hay". So from now on I have my own definition of the types of hay - 1. filler hay 2. good hay 3. Feed hay The zebra is my neighbors. He likes to buy different things like that. I like it too but don't turn your back on her! He's also got buffalo and a bunch of other neat stuff along with about 800 head. I like to go by there every now and then cause you never know what he is going to drag up on the cattle trailer. [/QUOTE]
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