$7.00 gallon diesel??

[Sully2]

...</font><font color="blue" class="small">( by the way, I understand is cleaner than it's been in the last 100 years and that's good because you may be walking a lot in the future. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>

Naw...but might be staying inside at home more... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Now about "haying"... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[5030]

Sully2:

Fuel cost goes up, fertilizer goes up, per bale price goes up. Supply and demand....just like truck'in. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

One way or another I'll keep my profit margin.

 

[Sully2]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Sully2:

Fuel cost goes up, fertilizer goes up, per bale price goes up. Supply and demand....just like truck'in. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

One way or another I'll keep my profit margin. )</font>

When it comes to hay prices..I pity the "hobby horse owner"...who enjoys riding..etc..and has to BUY every bale their horse(s) need for winter. I had horses...they dont eat like the brids in my backyard do. But..no one ever said owning horse(s) was cheap...just fun ( which I always felt that way)...so they are gonna have to dig DEEP like the rest of us!

 

[cowboydoc]

<font color="green">One way or another I'll keep my profit margin. </font>

Unfortunately in farming there's no such thing as a one way or the other profit margin. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Hay may go up in price but then use is going to go down. Take the drought areas of Oklahoma and Texas. Hay is $6-10/bale there. So they just went to cubed hay and complete feeds where only a small flake of hay is needed. Friends I have down there went from feeding a bale every 3 days to feeding a bale every 7 days.

 

[Joe1]

You are absolutely right. What the future holds in ten or twenty years is meaningless at the pump today. We need a long term energy policy which includes drilling as you suggest, plus wind generation and nuclear plants. We also need to look long term and develop alternative sources of energy and to conserve as well.

If we had our own sources of oil, OPEC and other source countries would drop their prices or risk losing our business. If we consume as much oil as is stated, we should have a tremendous influence on the price if we could use our own oil. If the OPEC sand rats thought we wouldn't buy their oil at a high price, it WOULD come down.

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="green">
. Hay is $6-10/bale there. )</font>

The 20 bales I bought last summer set me back all of 50 cents a bale.

 

[5030]

Richard:

Lets not get into the processed feeds thing. You know what that does to a barn and stalls....That's why we both do rounds.

 

[cp1969]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( One way or another I'll keep my profit margin.)</font>

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Unfortunately in farming there's no such thing as a one way or the other profit margin. )</font>

It's a certainty that there is no such thing in farming. I doubt that there are very many other businesses where one can simply jack up prices whenever a cost of operation increases, either.

 

[5030]

I've always heard the saying "Farm 'till you go broke". /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Builder]

Then sell your land for 5 million bucks. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif