Drought.
I am getting very nervous. My fields are crispy and I am going to have to put hay out to supplement soon. On top of that my hay supplier called me asking if I knew of hay for sale.[B)] I have called several farmers and no one has any for sale. I don't know what I will do this winter. Spent the last few years building my herd up only to sell em for a loss.[V]
Hard times for sure.
Hard times for sure.
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Watch any bought from the Willamette valley lots of farmers got caught with their pants down by several rain storms.
Now we too are in a drought.0 -
I?ve got about 10 acres you can have. Don?t look like my neighbor is going to cut it.
It rained here through May and then the spigot turned off.
About an inch since the first of June. Went from mowing the yard twice a week to once every two weeks.0 -
yeah here in SC Kansas high 90's and windy.....no rain for at least the next 2 weeks....irrigation is running hard as corn and soybeans have jumped with the heat units.......tenant planted alfalfa and first cutting was sold out of the field and second is down now...looks like it was a good idea to share instead of cash rent with the demand 0 -
Buy some hay from wherever, and have it trucked in. Not much else you can do. Some years you win, some years you lose (farming.)
quote:Originally posted by redneckandy
I am getting very nervous. My fields are crispy and I am going to have to put hay out to supplement soon. On top of that my hay supplier called me asking if I knew of hay for sale.[B)] I have called several farmers and no one has any for sale. I don't know what I will do this winter. Spent the last few years building my herd up only to sell em for a loss.[V]
Hard times for sure.0 -
We have lots of extra hay this year in Florida due to all the rain we have been getting. Have Savage170 hook up a trailer to his truck and bring you a load since he is headed your way anyhow. 0 -
I started putting hay out two days ago to off set the lack of grass
I bought 30 rolls and need about 60-70. My hay meadow is ready to cut (1st cutting) and the guy should be out next week so hoping to get 30-40 out of it. got 73 last year [:0]
like you I just got the herd started and doing everything I can to keep them without costing me a arm and leg/.0 -
There's a point at which it's financially advantageous to sell out or reduce numbers rather than throw money away trying to "save the herd". I know this is distasteful but it's a fact.
Hay is going over $100 a ton in the field here in north MO. Mine is priced @ $60 a bale and the buyer will be here today to load the first semi. I'm pricing it conservatively simply because I like doing business with the guy and he's always been a good customer. This is prime brome hay and the guy has bought my hay for the last 4 years w/o a quibble over price because of the quality of the product. If for some reason he changes his mind, there are 5 others waiting in line with a check in hand for a chance to buy--and their price will be higher.
Looks like another 3-5 days before another chance of rain and the hay and pasture ground is burnt up. Yesterday the temp hit 101.5*.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Mobuck
There's a point at which it's financially advantageous to sell out or reduce numbers rather than throw money away trying to "save the herd". I know this is distasteful but it's a fact.
Hay is going over $100 a ton in the field here in north MO. Mine is priced @ $60 a bale and the buyer will be here today to load the first semi. I'm pricing it conservatively simply because I like doing business with the guy and he's always been a good customer. This is prime brome hay and the guy has bought my hay for the last 4 years w/o a quibble over price because of the quality of the product. If for some reason he changes his mind, there are 5 others waiting in line with a check in hand for a chance to buy--and their price will be higher.
Looks like another 3-5 days before another chance of rain and the hay and pasture ground is burnt up. Yesterday the temp hit 101.5*.
Iv been lucky do far. I was able to buy the first 30 rolls of good hay, not top grade but good none the less for 25.00 bucks a roll and my meadow holds good moisture and still green as heck. the guy who bales for me charges 20 bucks a bale0 -
Still no rain. Cutting down trees to give the cows extra forage. Even the trees are dying off. Feeding lots of hay, got enough to make it to about January if nothing changes. I think I will end up selling more cows than I want to.
Farming is rough.[V]0 -
Hope you don't buy Oregon Christmas trees. Cause most are now dead. 0 -
45 days-no rain here, 2nd cutting grass hay has been inconsistant even with irrigating. 0 -
What do they do with the large squares of wheat straw that they have in Oreg. and Washington? There are thousands of them in the fields and stacks. 0 -
And here where I'm at, just a couple of states over, there was a long rain over night and this morning. I was talking with someone today about with this rain the 3rd cutting of hay should be pretty good.
Wishing you the best there Andy. Is it cost effective to ship in hay?0 -
We're flooding left and right. Pool up 4 inches in 2 hours- they were water skiing in the parking lot with a 4x4.
Maybe we need a national water pipeline to even this disparity out.0 -
Was getting pretty bad here in East Texas, even ran a ele. fence across the road on the lease side to run half the cows on it.
we got about 4" of rain last week so now things are greening up and starting to grow again. also picked up another 16 5x6 bales yesterday and going to get 20 sq bales sunday. that puts me at 68 bales and about 30 sq which should carry me though the winter. I hope [B)]
lucky thing is i paid 25 for the round rolls which have been going for around 65-75 and 5 bucks for the sq. bales which are 10 at the feed stores or 7-9 in the field.0 -
quote:Originally posted by us55840
USDA map for this area has us in a drought. Last I heard, we were 3" below normal for rainfall and that was over a month ago.
The trees are showing heat and moisture stress as the leaves are drooping, some turning brown and dropping off already.
We sure could use some rain, and a lot of rain would be better.
just checked my county and we are in a Extreme Drought per the map [:0][B)]0 -
quote:Originally posted by forgemonkey
Always listened to my Grandfather,,,,,,,,,,,
'Son, always have one years hay need in reserve, Mother Nature is in control.'
His advice continues to serve me well,,,,,,,,,
My Big Daddy never gave me any advice like that but I think Ill listen to yours and start having some in reserve from now on [:D]0 -
I believe that the effects of the drought are being seen by the beef prices in the Markets...
Anytime you see Choice Rib-Eyes steaks going for $4.67 a pound and Porter House Steaks going for $5.47 a pound something isn't quite right...Beef and Pork sales are going on every week end since Memorial Day. They will probably run again close to Labor Day.
This is good for meat lovers but hard as hell on the growers...
Farming and Ranching is hard work , drought just add to it.0 -
http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?OR
Well I'm on this map right between Sever and Extreme. Heard it on the news last night it was at the Extreme level. Old firs are dying off around here.0
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