Grains are in the chitter but cattle are climbing!
Barry, how much is decent grass/alf hay per ton down your way?
Depending on quality it's roughly +/- $150/ton around here plus freight. $200 for really good stuff.
We try to grow most of our own hay and I'm guessing the hoppers took +200 ton, which for us is a lot. Looking back we should have hired out our dry land haying, by the time we got there the hoppers raised hell.
No alfalfa in this area. That's further west in west Texas and NM.
Down here they sell fertilized coastal Bermuda as the "best" hay.
Looking at what went on early on with fertilizer and no rain, I'm guessing that "fertilized" hay for sale now... isn't.
That'll drop the protein content down some, but it still makes good cow hay.
They sell it by the round bale rather than by the ton. Fixing to buy several loads, and will pay by the bale count.
Usually with my hey guy the bales will roll at 1250-1400 pounds per bale. But I bet this year, they have the balers set a little looser.
