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southern MN | Using good land for hay here, it will be alfalfa.
Grass hay is going to come from road ditches, field roads, odd shaped 2 acre triangles, and ground too wet to get planted in spring but often dries up enough mid summer to bale. Certainly going to be the waste lands. A very little bit is well managed grass hay high quality but that’s a small percent of hay made around here.
We get lots of grass hay and it will be cheap or really cheap depending how wet a mess the year was. But then, quality vs cheap, what are ya getting. Alfalfa feeds the few dairies around here, grass hay is filler for long winter beef critters.
The rare dry year grass hay really works out nice for income, but almost need 2 dry years in a row to get rid of inventories and have that waste land produce a good quality crop. And I know, this is opposite of most ‘dry land’ hay regions.
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Anybody Quit Baling Hay and Just Buy It?
