Did a little hay last week ...

[blueriver]

If everyone is like us we havent made what we needed in cple years now so had to buy and still didnt get enough to have some extra to carry over at $100bale. I have two places 40 miles apart this week had 6in. at one and 1/4in.at other and pastures havent fully recovered yet from last year so if rain stops pastures not going to hold up much longer,so may have to start feeding Hay end of August. I guess knowbody wonts to get in a bind like last year.

Hey Todd I poured the 3/10's out then got another 1in. in gauge before I left leona,then they texted me was raining again an hr later,may need to run up to the JD dealer

Thats nice when the dealer throws rain in on the purchase of a new tractor !!!

I had folks drive in from Colorado yesterday and bought every round bale I had left and will send the semi's the upcoming week to haul it out ... according to them absoulutly no hay to be had in there area.

 

[Bob Ha]

I had folks drive in from Colorado yesterday and bought every round bale I had left and will send the semi's the upcoming week to haul it out ... according to them absoulutly no hay to be had in there area.

I've had people from Arkansas get some last week. I think they are stockpiling it expecting the drought to get much worst.

 

[blueriver]

I've had people from Arkansas get some last week. I think they are stockpiling it expecting the drought to get much worst.

I believe its going to get that way ... the ground is really dry and along with the heat and wind any moisture we have is being pulled out. I've noticed some ads on DFW CL selling Arkansas cattle ... some area's of Texas are getting ample rain. Another thread on TBN has an interesting map of the drought.

 

[foreman Etexas]

Well I finally got the father-in-law to buy a tractor,so he isnt tearing my new one up in the brush,he picked up a nice 2000 Mahindra 5005DI with loader:thumbsup: I drove it around more than my new one Now I have to convert it over to quickattach so he can use my stuff.I thought about trying to build one but I may just buy one, figure it would be cheaper than him messing something up on mine and having to fix it. My co-worker went up to look at Kubota's and said they already sold my old 5040,he ended up getting a 5140 but said he couldnt have got my old anyways with Kubota finance.

Glad yall having a good hay year:thumbsup:We know who's making all the money in here
I start cutting next thursday,hope to get a few photos,may even try the square baler out to see what she will do.....

 

[Bob Ha]

I had folks drive in from Colorado yesterday and bought every round bale I had left and will send the semi's the upcoming week to haul it out ... according to them absoulutly no hay to be had in there area.

A guy from Colorado is coming this weekend to get some hay. He said he buys and resale's for $280 a ton. He's making more than I am on the bales but he does have to drive 500 miles each way.

 

[blueriver]

A guy from Colorado is coming this weekend to get some hay. He said he buys and resale's for $280 a ton. He's making more than I am on the bales but he does have to drive 500 miles each way.

I sold my rounds for $60 ... can get 34 on a 53' step deck and its right at $2600 from here to the final destination in CO. ... by the time he gets it thats about $136 a bale and I believe them to be 1000 lb bales and that puts it at about $272 a ton ... turns into expensive hay. My buyer also stated when he drove down here he stopped at more farms than mine ... I was the last stop. When he got out of the truck he stated "Hope you have some green hay to show me" ... he stuck his hand in and when he pulled it out he says "Man I could hug you ...Thats the first good hay I've seen" ... took him to a couple fields and showed him more ... he bought every round bale I had left and stated if I cut more he'll take them as well ... problem is HEAT, WIND, NO RAIN .... no hay.

 

[Bob Ha]

I sold my rounds for $60 ... can get 34 on a 53' step deck and its right at $2600 from here to the final destination in CO. ... by the time he gets it thats about $136 a bale and I believe them to be 1000 lb bales and that puts it at about $272 a ton ... turns into expensive hay. My buyer also stated when he drove down here he stopped at more farms than mine ... I was the last stop. When he got out of the truck he stated "Hope you have some green hay to show me" ... he stuck his hand in and when he pulled it out he says "Man I could hug you ...Thats the first good hay I've seen" ... took him to a couple fields and showed him more ... he bought every round bale I had left and stated if I cut more he'll take them as well ... problem is HEAT, WIND, NO RAIN .... no hay.

The guy from Colorado was a no show for us. We sold our last 60 bales to someone in the Texas panhandle. We still have a few fields to cut but the quality is not the best (sandburs). We may also get another cut before hay season ends. Depends on the rains!

 

[Bob Ha]

I sold my rounds for $60 ... can get 34 on a 53' step deck and its right at $2600 from here to the final destination in CO. ... by the time he gets it thats about $136 a bale and I believe them to be 1000 lb bales and that puts it at about $272 a ton ... turns into expensive hay. My buyer also stated when he drove down here he stopped at more farms than mine ... I was the last stop. When he got out of the truck he stated "Hope you have some green hay to show me" ... he stuck his hand in and when he pulled it out he says "Man I could hug you ...Thats the first good hay I've seen" ... took him to a couple fields and showed him more ... he bought every round bale I had left and stated if I cut more he'll take them as well ... problem is HEAT, WIND, NO RAIN .... no hay.

The guy from Colorado was a no show for us. We sold our last 60 bales to someone in the Texas panhandle. We still have a few fields to cut but the quality is not the best (sandburs). We may also get another cut before hay season ends. Depends on the rains!

 

[blueriver]

The guy from Colorado was a no show for us. We sold our last 60 bales to someone in the Texas panhandle. We still have a few fields to cut but the quality is not the best (sandburs). We may also get another cut before hay season ends. Depends on the rains!

Don't you just love a no-show !!! Another 53' step deck is scheduled for Saturday morning. Other than the homeplace where I am irrigating everything else is suffering from heat and lack of rain ... I'm in the thinking process of adding a liquid fertilizer application to my irrigation reel ... I need to add the fertilize/weed spray on the next irrigation run.

 

[MotorSeven]

Wow, we are very fortunate. After that heat wave a month or so ago it started raining. First a few days of soaking rain, then "maintenance rain" an hour or so almost every day for the last month. We usually get 3 cuttings a year, but the third is already ready to cut, so a fourth is a real possibility. I am seeing a foot of growth every two weeks. What a great season to have a broken baler:thumbsdown: