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I dunno Walt, we used to put up a fair amount of hay for our horses ourselves, a year like this year is ideal, cannot believe the periods of cool dry weather we have had, moisture-schmoisture, if you had decent weather and cut it with anything other than just a sickle, it ought to be dry enough by using the same methods most have used for years, dry one side, turn it over, check by hand, then bale. I can see your point, some of these people probably are getting a little ridiculous, but by the same token I get tired of the bashing of horse owners on this site, there are plenty who do not fall into the unreasonable hay customer category, we are one and if someone were to make statements to my face like I've heard here lately, they'd get an earful to say the least, because it does not apply to everyone, most around here used to put up there own hay, under some harsh conditions, with minimal help, one of dads friends turned an old JD over, was pinned but not badly hurt, lots of dangerous hills here, but all the fields used to get baled back then. It used to be the running joke when we were in school, as far as who put up the most bales that year. Anyone who knows what it takes to put up hay, would not be so arrogant when buying, I'd tell these people they need to come out and help cut, rake, bale and fix the equipment, + load/unload etc., might give em an education and less time to think about that marginal amount of extra moisture, sounds like they be a bit paranoid, tell em to cut back on the wacky tobacky LOL !!! Next thing they'll be asking aboyut the calibration records for that meter ! I realize there is an element of pompous asses that reside in the horse industry, but there also many who are just as realistic and down to earth as farmers are. One of the local guys comes by throughout the year, brings half a dozen bales of whatever he has for sale, if we like it, ( which is usually the case) no charge for those, if not, whatever the going rate is, he's always got good hay, and he will deliver and stack, of course we help etc. There are others we have to be careful with, have found garbage and dangerous items in the bales, sounds like these people are reading way to far into these things, and that moisture meter is a tool to measure, that's it, matter of opinion after that.
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