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Is there any problem with getting salt with that water?

River water, no problems.



Our salt problems are on low spots in dry land fields.


We do have some lower yielding hard pan streaks on irrigated fields but that unrelated.

If good hay and only a little rain, that's pretty cheap.

above volumes (tonnage, acres, and bales) listed on this USDA LPGMN report are for confirmed trades only, it does not
include estimated volume (tonnage) for bids or offers to the trade.
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Hay (Conventional)
Alfalfa - Premium/Supreme (Trade/Per Ton)
Qty Price Range Wtd Avg Freight/Use Description Crop Age
Large Square 3x4 1000 235.00 235.00 F.O.B.-Feedlot/dairy 1st Cutting
Alfalfa - Premium (Trade/Per Ton)
Qty Price Range Wtd Avg Freight/Use Description Crop Age
Medium Square
3x3
1600 220.00 220.00 F.O.B.-Export 1st Cutting
Medium Square
3x3
1600 220.00 220.00 F.O.B.-Feedlot/dairy 1st Cutting
Alfalfa - Good/Premium (Trade/Per Ton)
Qty Price Range Wtd Avg Freight/Use Description Crop Age
Large Square 3x4 1000 215.00 215.00 F.O.B.-Feedlot/dairy 1st Cutting
Alfalfa - Fair/Good (Trade/Per Ton)
Qty Price Range Wtd Avg Freight/Use Description Crop Age
Large Square 4x4 500 180.00 180.00 F.O.B. New Crop
Orchard Grass - Premium (Trade/Per Ton)
Qty Price Range Wtd Avg Freight/Use Description Crop Age
Small Square 100 365.00 365.00 F.O.B.-Stables 1st Cutting New Crop
Timothy Grass - Premium (Trade/Per Ton)
Qty Price Range Wtd Avg Freight/Use Description Crop Age
Small Square 3 Tie 500 325.00 325.00 F.O.B.-Stables New Crop
Direct Hay Weighted Average Report for week ending 6/16/2023
Source: USDA AMS Livestock, Poultry & Grain Market News Page 1 of 2
WA Dept of Ag Market News
Moses Lake, WA | (509) 393-1343
https://mymarketnews.ams.usda.gov/ | https://mymarketnews.ams.usda.gov/viewReport/3058
www.ams.usda.gov/lpgmn
Washington-Oregon (Columbia Basin) Direct Hay Report

Gonna say 65-70# 2 string

Most of the hay guys are using round or 3x3x8 bales

High on Utah's Colorado Plateau here

Just short of 6K' out the back door

Summer temps drop like a rock when the sun goes down

Winter too of course ):


https://www.peakbagger.com/map/BigM...5&maxx=-106.071704&t=R&d=134

900+ lb high quality first cutting grass rounds, $55 each, loaded on my trailer in the field.
Just bought some 60lb squares of first cutting grass with a touch of clover for $5 a bale.

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What resevoir is that?

Have not irrigated yet this year. Will likely get first cutting without any irrigation. It just keeps raining a little here and there. Just hope it shuts off so we can get the 1st put up next week.

Then I will get our pipe laid out and get after it. Bought a new pressure booster pump for my gated pipe. Updated design that I am hoping cures some of my problems on 1 field. If it does, I will get that pump paid off maybe this year. Certainly halfway trough next year I will be money ahead.

When I lived south of Albuquerque, I got five cuttings of alfalfa each year. Irrigated off a cement ditch that made 3500gpm. Right now I have grass that is approaching 4 ft tall, but there is water laying in it.

Flood irrigation here is almost gone

Some places may still

Thinking our local irrigation has been pressurized for 20+ yrs

Have a 6" main line....with 3" risers every 100' or so

Plenty of pressure

"And...that's when the fight started"

lol

I'm paying 180/ton for grass here. Going to go up to. Trying to cut every little patch I can.

I need to ask my nephew what he just paid for the round bales he just brought in off his girlfriend's field. Farmers are just now getting in first crop alfalfa. I told him to stock up if he can ,we have two big barns to store hay now. Most the crops are in tough shape around here as we just had our first soaker in six weeks. My niece and nephew and a few others just raise heifers now and show some of them. They seem to do ok at it as long as the feed prices don't go off the charts.

Beware of moldy alfalfa. Do not buy from a producer
you don’t trust. Mold in alfalfa can cause abortion in
goats and cows. All horse people I know have a
Zero tolerance for mold.

2 or 3 wire/twine bales of alfalfa is $280/ton.

It took a while to get to 65 degree nights here so our fields have been real slow growing. Friday I was quoted $50 per round bale on a 12 bale goose neck.At an actual sale price. that was a first cut for a guy that had some skinny cattle.