we just finally got our first cutting of alfalfa and hay-alfalfa mix pastures bailed. We haven't gotten near as much rain up here in southern minn as iowa. what is hay and alfalfa bringing right now where your from? I'm guessing there are going to be a few fields underwater for awhile elsewhere.
Hay/Alfalfa
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shortyjock89
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This spring, before anyone started baling, grass hay was about $7/Square bale. I'm not exactly sure what it's going for now, or what alfalfa is, but it's pretty expensive. I'm in central Illinois.
Reinken Cattle Co.
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In central Iowa we are waiting to get our first cutting out hopefully this week! everything up on hills looks great! but will lose alot of leaves...the low feilds flooded out...square bales were selling for over 6 dollars.
BCCC
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alfalfa
small squares- 8 bucks
1 ton round bales- 140 a ton
Grass
We dont bale grass around here :'(
small squares- 8 bucks
1 ton round bales- 140 a ton
Grass
We dont bale grass around here :'(
BCCC - is that high end dairy/goat/horse quality on the small squares? We are getting ready to price ours now. Due to the weather, our first cutting mostly went into bags but did put up some in sm. squares for a neighbor.
Our second cutting will go down this week - was ready to be cut last week but the fields have been too wet to hold the swather up. Hope we can get it worked in around the rains. We got luck on our brome hay
Our second cutting will go down this week - was ready to be cut last week but the fields have been too wet to hold the swather up. Hope we can get it worked in around the rains. We got luck on our brome hay
shortyjock89
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Stihlpro said:
Oh my. Sorry to hear that if you're buying hay, but I'm real happy for you if you get to sell it!
BCCC
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That is for horse quality(thats the only reason we bale small squares)kanshow said:
I know in Central Missouri most of the 1st cutting clover and alfalfa is still in. Were just doing grass hay this year going to cut fescue seed off then bale cause the nights have been so cool lately and the undergrowth is just starting to come on. I have seen quite a few fields go down already but they are getting them wet since we have had rain every other day. Well the only other thing for our wet spring is well have some fall grass too since many of the crops have not got in as well or have gotten flooded out. Going to be an interesting year feeding livestock with high priced fuel feed and fertilizer. But hopefully we can all hang on through these tough times.
It will be interesting to see what happens. I would guess that with the high grain prices, there will be less feed/silage planted & some alfalfa ground will go back into row crop. That would tend to drive feed prices up too.
red
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steermomintx
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Just wondering what kind of hay is that in the picture??red said:
steermomintx
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Well I guess you can tell I am from South Texas not much alfalfa down here!! Not much of anything right now we are burning up. We did not even plant hay this year, it's to dry. ThanksATOZ said:
red
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we drilled rye into it earlier this spring. The rye will loosen the soil somewhat. We'll tear it up next year.
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