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Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot | Brad the export market means Japan, Korea, basically most of the Pacific Rim. Middle East has become a big player in the last few years as well. UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, etc. Not just all for fancy horses either, they have been building dairy capacity there as well. It does go out of our area to be pressed and loaded into the containers, there isn't an operationt that presses hay within 300 miles of here, but they like hay from this area.
Small squares are the 3 tie small squares. Guys like them as they can go about anywhere with them. Bale 130-150lbs and you can go to a dairy or export. Then if you have some grass or a grass/alf mix you can bale at 100lbs for the feed store market. Dairys prefer the 3x4 big bales but won't pass on nice hay in heavy three tie. I think the export guys prefer three tie as that is what all thier equipment was originally designed for. Most of them are changing to be able to accept 3x4 big bales, but it is extra handling for them.
There are still lots of small (less than couple hundred head) cattle outfits around as well. 99% of them feed off a pickup, and don't want big bales. Just not set up to load them. I've never seen a round bale in the area. Just never caught on around here. Most guys are also trying to sell thier hay first, and only end up feeding it if it gets wrecked by thunderstorm or something. Pretty tough to sell it if it is in a round bale. | |
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Some of our corn makes the cover photo of the Capital Press... sort of
