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| It depends. Here (CO) a lot of corn wasn't planted. Then there was a tremendous amount of hail. There were a lot of acres planted to millet and forage sorghum. We've had some rain in August that will help some of that. But overall winter grazing will be severely limited in quite a large area. That will put a lot of pressure on harvested forage supplies of all kinds. I know people that grind corn stalks and beet pulp with some alfalfa. The last local hay auction had last years corn stalks at over $200 a ton. Alfalfa is whatever it takes to buy it. Beet pulp hard to get from what I'm hearing. The wild card is what kind of winter we have. We need winter moisture but can't afford extra demand on feed. Sort of a no win situation. Ideally we have an open winter with lots of spring moisture.
The summer drought happened over a very large area. Sometimes it is rather localized making feed accessible without huge distances. You can already get hay out of eastern KS delivered cheaper than you can buy it here, about an eight hour semi trip from what I understand. | |
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