What is the going rate for Hay in your area ?

Do you buy bales ?

What tpye and weight ?

Do you pick up from the field or have it delivered ?

Do you grow your Hay ?

TOMORROW is HAY DAY for our Harvest Moon Farm here - it's hot hard work

Anyone every do any haying ?

I love ya Mach.

TotalANXiousNESS said:

We could celebrate all things Hay

Like WTF is the history of the term " Hay day " ?

Mach said:

HAHAHHA

I got all my Autumn stuff out yesterday. This is such a great time of the year.


Okay....I'll leave you to your livestock needs now.....

TotalANXiousNESS said:

Do you think I am the only Org livestock owner who buys Hay ?

Mach said:

No.

I think you're

the only Org Livestock OWNER.

TotalANXiousNESS said:

we can pretend that bale of straw is a bale of hay

TotalANXiousNESS said:

The Org doesn't know what it's missing


:shovelpoopandsweatwhilegrooming:

I have requested a new forum for the Org - supporters sign on here

http://prince.org/msg/3/241386

Mach said:

The going rate for hay around here is about £4.50 a bale or £25 a large round one. We currently get our hay for about £2 a bale, but it's not very nice. - Alright for our greedy, wasteful ponies though!

i have been researching gettin some beef cattle ... i hear the price of beef is good right now ... and maybe they would work out good mowing some of the fields down ...

of course - always a negative too ... i talked to a guy yesterday that did say he and his gal pal got attached to the cattle ...

hay day?!

explain woman!
you mean you are putting up your hay all tomorrow?!

Mach said:

I freakin' love this display! Is that at your house Mach??

oh and we wouldn't pay for hay unless there was drought
either you have enough tame grass to cut
or you cut the grass in the roadways.
(not so nice... always a danger of driving over a beer bottle and wrecking a tire)


but only $50 for a round bale??
that's super cheap!!!

emm said:

Isn't that pretty polluted?

PaisleyPark5083 said:

I am going to copy it for my yard this year. It won't look the same though...it will have to blend in with my 2 palm trees and all....california.

Hay is NOT the same as grass - hay is or at least should be a well balanced mix of different kinds of grass, some cloves (less if it's for horses cos they're sensitive towards that, more if it's cows) and some herbs. Making the mistake to just let your neglected fields get overgrown and then use it as hay has put many a farmer out of business and it's making the cattle/horses malnourished. Producing hay costs money especially since it needs to be ventilated/dried post-harvest to be sure that mold doesn't start growing inside the bales. This is particularly important with the round bales.

Farmer PSA over.

as in garbage or some kind of air quality pollution?

there are all sorts of different grasses that grow up
depending on the ditch. sometimes even sweet clover or alfalfa.
occasionally you get a fastfood bag wrapped up in the mix
and there will be more waste in a wild bale than a tame one
as there will be something that's too mature that they don't like
the taste of... but you don't cut the grass next to the road
so as far as oil or road salts... it's not an issue.

Damn, not quite over - Mach, in your neck of the woods there should be two hay harvests a year - the first one would be "stronger", more potent and thus more nutritious because it's usually taken before the brass goes to seeding (don't know the proper word in English). The second harvest is coarser and the level of nutrition is lower.

Now I'm done I think.

emm said:

Difference of culture I guess - nobody in Sweden would even consider feeding their animals grass that just grew alongside the ditch. Here hay is something you put time, effort and money into and grow in the fields.

emm said:

You really need to start using the "reply with quote" button, emm. I'm guessing this is for me though.

I was mostly referring to exhaust fumes coming from the cars. When there's snow on the ground I'm always amazed at how pitch black it is right next to the road.

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Teacher said:

most people who run large opperations have tame feilds where they have specifically planted a mixture of grasses adjusted to their needs. for someone who has a few hobby animals they would use wild grass or buy your feed or a mixture of both. so i don't want to infer that producers here don't put time, money or effort into putting up their winter feed they do. it's a long winter and very important.

emm said:

Ok I'm saying that hobby animal owners here just buy "properly" grown hay.

retina said:

better?

i don't doubt that there are some air pollutants in the feed but i think you have to reason that road usage and climate here are different. it's a wiiide open country with much fewer people travelling the roads. and the wind is always blowing lol... i am guessing the levels of air pollutants are higher in my home and on my garden produce then they are on the hay baled in a ditch. just guessing though

emm said:

I mean ...

we will be walking the field and loading by hand in our trucks about 350 -
70 lb bales

PaisleyPark5083 said:

Nope - it's cute though

Teacher said:

I know this hun TY and because we are 12" below our water tables this yr there was one good cutting in mid summer - most all other second cut fields did not produce enough to cut - drought

Mach said:

Damn Sorry to hear that, means that hay prizes will be harsh this winter. Wish I could be there for hay day though, the HARD work... there's nothing like it at the end of that day when you're full of red pricks from the hay, your eyes, ears and nose is full if hay dust... your arms and legs are like jelly and your back is aching.