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danielgage
we have filled up the barns and have round bales sitting out in the weather lots and lots of hay

is any part of the country short :?:

needing hay :?:

If so I wish I could help them
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  • redhawkk480
    WI it's been so wet up here all summer farmers having a hard time getting it put up without molding
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  • NeoBlackdog
    My sister-in-law outside of Kalispell, MT had a load of hay delivered yesterday for her horses and the seller said it was a good thing she reserved it last summer as the weather has caused him to come up about 300 tons short of what he'd projected. He's turning people away left and right 'cause he's got nothin' to sell 'em.

    Where are ya, Daniel?
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  • Grasshopper
    Yea, southern, I'll has had a rough planting, hay, and all things to do with farming. I have never seen such a wet spring, summer in my life as this one. Good crop of weeds and mosquitos , ohh and hoppers and horseflies. Like a plague. BIL's got 1/5 of their crop in,



    got 1/5
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  • danielgage
    NeoBlackdog wrote:
    My sister-in-law outside of Kalispell, MT had a load of hay delivered yesterday for her horses and the seller said it was a good thing she reserved it last summer as the weather has caused him to come up about 300 tons short of what he'd projected. He's turning people away left and right 'cause he's got nothin' to sell 'em.

    Where are ya, Daniel?

    Northeast Arkansas just outside of Jonesboro AR
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  • jimdeere
    Driest I?ve ever seen it. No second cutting here at all. No appreciable rain since June. Folks are feeding hay already. Pasture dry as paper.
    Water sources drying up.
    No rain in the forecast.
    I?m worried we will have fires when the leaves fall off like what happened in East Tennessee a few years ago.
    I haven?t mowed my yard since July.
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  • danielgage
    jimdeere wrote:
    Driest I?ve ever seen it. No second cutting here at all. No appreciable rain since June. Folks are feeding hay already. Pasture dry as paper.
    Water sources drying up.
    No rain in the forecast.
    I?m worried we will have fires when the leaves fall off like what happened in East Tennessee a few years ago.
    I haven?t mowed my yard since July.

    WOW

    we just finished our third cutting
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  • Mobuck
    More hay cut in north MO this week than I ever remember seeing this time of year. No idea why they didn't cut earlier since it's mostly broomstraw now. Just because it's rolled up into bales, doesn't mean it's worth feeding. We didn't have a great hay crop due to early spring conditions but it's far better than last year.
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  • danielgage
    forgemonkey wrote:
    Danny, I'm guessing we'll be short here, depending on type of winter. Thousands of acres have been planted to commercial 'Hemp' instead of hay.

    Early, late and snowy winter will see a lot of cattle going to the auction or the killers.

    thanks I am thinking I may need to buy come feeder calves and feed them this hay this winter if I cannot sell it

    time to watch some football Mr.Bill
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  • Locust Fork
    When I was a teenager I had to "do hay" with my friends for our horses. We gathered as many boys as we could to get it handled for the year in one big weekend of misery. I think I'd die if I tried to do hay now. Its a badge of honor to have every inch of your body covered in some kind of bug bite or poked and your hands stuck in hook positions from picking up the bales and trying to get them to the truck.

    We just had 6 horses.....so it was not a farm operation by any means. I still loved it when I was younger and didn't mind nearly killing myself with manual labor.
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  • redneckandy
    jimdeere wrote:
    Driest I?ve ever seen it. No second cutting here at all. No appreciable rain since June. Folks are feeding hay already. Pasture dry as paper.
    Water sources drying up.
    No rain in the forecast.
    I?m worried we will have fires when the leaves fall off like what happened in East Tennessee a few years ago.
    I haven?t mowed my yard since July.
    That sounds like Missouri last year. I started feeding hay in July and was cutting trees down just to give my cows extra forage. Worst year I have been through. This year we have had above average rain and no shortage of hay.
    Hang in there, it will get better.
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  • SCOUT5
    A few of the folks around here managed to get a 1st cutting in during a brief period of dry weather. Most didn't get in a 1st cutting until after what should have been a 2nd cutting. By then the hay wasn't what it should have been. Just to much rain early.

    A lot of the early corn planted got drowned out and the fields were replanted in soybeans. I do not know what all this is going to do to the markets.
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  • hillbille
    we were just talking last week how much around here is going to waste, no one cuts it anymore, hayfields are just overgrown, not many folks even running cattle. we have a cousin who has maybe 4-5 acre field behind her house, she used to have neighbor cut it for hay, now she can't get anyone to take it, and can't afford to pay to have it brushhogged. hate to hear so many out there could use it...
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  • jltrent
    jimdeere wrote:
    Driest I?ve ever seen it. No second cutting here at all. No appreciable rain since June. Folks are feeding hay already. Pasture dry as paper.
    Water sources drying up.
    No rain in the forecast.
    I?m worried we will have fires when the leaves fall off like what happened in East Tennessee a few years ago.
    I haven?t mowed my yard since July.
    I am around 3-4 hour drive west of you in VA and we have had a pretty good season. It is getting dry now, but still not bad. A lot of difference in weather in short distances.

    I have up over 600 5x5 round bales and could bale more, but will let the cattle bale it this fall.
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  • hoosier
    Folks across from us have 6 Morgan horses. They have been buying Hay bales (fits in the Barn better she says).

    They have 21 acres of fields, but keep the horses on about 8-10. And have been bush hogging the grass down on the rest.

    They just moved in about 6 months ago, and don't seemed to be concerned about this. Not too friendly either.

    I just told them their neighbor, Tim will do it and split the hay with them. That's what did for the last people there.
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