My buddy lost his grass so he had to take his bred cows to Miles City.
Bred cows mind.
He average 670 dollars a head.
They were not butter ball fat....but they were skin and bone either.
670!
If it doesn't rain well this spring, we'll be sending anout half the herd to town to take a similar beating. Drought last summer, with a hail storm in June that hammered about 1/3 of our pasture.
Around here, I'm wondering if there's going to be even 1/2 the herd left at the end of this. Spot price for hay has crept above $300 per ton, some touching $350. Guys that didn't have their hay bought have no choice but to pay and go broke, or sell and go broke.
