old-iron-habit
Senior Member
- Joined
- Nov 22, 2012
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- Location
- Moose Lake, MN
- Occupation
- Retired Cons't. Supt./Hospitals
Everyone in my area culled cows probably 20% sold out completely ,round bales of good hay was selling over $100. I kept mine alive with $75 milo stubble and cubes. The whole state was affected south Texas was worse, a lot of people no only had no grass, but had to haul water to stock that gets old quick. Good hay this year is about $65 for a 6x5 bale. I have about $50 a bale in fertilizer, weed poison, land taxes on hay field and baling. Good hay is not cheap I cut mine on 28 day cycle for maximum protein and digestibility got 3 years worth 2 in barns 1 outside that I am feeding now.
Lots of people in this area sold all their stock and sent their hay to Texas and other drought areas the last few years. It did not make any sense to feed cows all winter when hay was selling for $75 to $80 a bale loaded on the purchasers truck. Now hay price is down to 1/3 of that and cows are expensive. There is a lot of whining going on that they wish they could get some reasonable priced cows.