johnwayne360 - 6/4/2019 18:48 or..if he has a place to store it..could buy a years worth of hay..and keep buying as long as the price is low..and wait out the high prices. although that strategy may or may not work out this year. its not very often we have 2 or 3 bad hay years in a row. On the other hand..less people are making dry hay these days..seems harder to make dry hay every year. So im wondering if dry bales will be a thing of the past soon. ...and build a $50,000 hay shed which you have to pay real estate taxes on... There is less and less hay being raised in our traditional dairy area as smaller dairies go out of business. The land is more likely to end up rented to corn and beans that qualify for government insurance programs (such as PP) rather than stay in pasture or hay for sale into an uncertain market with no government insurance. Large dairies tend to be chopping what grass they use rather than making large round bales. I feel you need to be able to make hay in order to manage the uneven and unmatched growth of grass and consumption of hay by your cattle.
Edited by Jim 6/4/2019 20:28
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