hosspuller
Veteran Member
- Joined
- Oct 9, 2008
- Messages
- 1,784
- Location
- Piedmont Triad, NC
- Tractor
- Didn't intend to have a Deere fleet - it just happened 310C, F915,102, 5200 & 5065E
Senecak19 ... I grow hay and harvest tax benefits. Most of my hay is for my animals. I store the hay and sell the surplus in January when the supply is tight. Square bales of Orchard grass to horse people. Break-even is the goal. (how to make a small fortune farming ?? Start with a large one) Never had any palatability issues, horses gobble the stuff up where they leave fescue to rot. I get enough hay from the first cutting so I let the grass grow all season, mowing to control weeds. It's a labor of love. As Haydude said, weather is the determiner. A reliable tractor is important. For machinery that is 50 years old, spare parts (mostly chains) is good to have. As for that labor part, can't get help with square bales when it's ready, so got an accumulator & grapple.