| Taiga - 5/14/2025 16:23 My experience is that to do 1000 ac a year of hay, in a commercial way (fast and top quality saleable product) you are over half million in haying equipment costs. Then add additional equipment costs for turning that ground over at regular intervals to keep it top notch (tillage, seeding, fertilizing, spraying etc).
You're thinking of 4-5 cuttings of alfalfa per year off of good ground. ~5000-6000 tons of hay.
I think the OP is talking more like low quality ground with an old stand of permanent grass on it. Might be less than 1000 tons per year.
Hence the $10,000 budget. You can’t spend $250k on machinery with a gross income of $100k.
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