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A lot of the people in Wellington, Fla. buy from the west and have it shipped in. I'm thinking Colorado and Wyoming, because of the environment there seems to be a good one for growing and baling hay. I've seen the hay at a high end stable in that complex full of show horses, looks and smells nice, these people have money available to support high end venues like these, expensive hay is probably a drop in the bucket. Locally, no one could get into the fields until recently, too much rain, so it went past it's prime, seems I saw a few people making a go at it with late model equipment, somehow shortening the dry time and getting some done in a very narrow window of time, earlier in the season. While taking a ride around I noticed quite a bit of hay still being grown here, not sure even if they baled all of it, it would get used, last weekend, every field I went by had some baling action going on, they had a nice window to get some done, no rain. My neighbor called and I went and looked at 7 of his wagons full, he usually bales some great stuff, and it's always a good deal buying from him, was $2.75/bale delivered last year, will be more this year, see a lot out there $3-$4 locally. 2nd cut is the best to stock up on for us. I did not take any as there was a lot of tan in it, ( baled past it's prime ) we have some of those hayburners at our place from one of them high end farms, that also have a place in Fla. not worth listening to the comments if you know what I mean, I told him to keep me posted if he does not get rained out for 2nd cut, they won't balk at that, it's always good if they get an opportunity to bale it. Honestly, it all looks like this so far, lot of tan, and not even rained on, not much you can do, but he always does a great job, he did more work on the baler, the bales were real nice, he's running a later model NH, forget the model, he also gets it dried nicely, I've always noticed. I would have taken some, if it would not come back to haunt me, ( for our horses, I've seen a lot worse than this, his looked fine to me, just that when people are paying for that high priced stuff, they'll balk at this and I don't need to get involved in that) His fields are well taken care of, some really good stuff growing there, just an off year, not being able to get to it, last year 1st cut was excellent, I took every bale he had and boy did those horses enjoy it after wintering on some really terrible hay. It must have been really wet in some areas, his 1st cut alfalfa stayed up over a month past it's due, I think he cut and chopped it for one of the few remaining large dairy's nearby.
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