Re: Hay Making for Idiots or How Stupid is This Id

Posted by Mark on May 14, 2004 at 05:34:11 from (207.206.18.234):

In Reply to: Hay Making for Idiots or How Stupid is This Idea posted by Kirk Grau on May 14, 2004 at 04:28:50:

Sounds like a good deal to me. Like someone else mentioned, do your homework or you could end up with a bunch of hay that you can't easily get rid of. We have 12 acres which is thick with clover and was used for hay before we bought the property and built our house.
Our neighbor, who boards horses, talked us into selling him the hay and said he would take all that we would make. I agreed and we struck a deal for him to buy the hay at 25 cents per bale more than it cost me to make it. I don't have any hay equipment, so I hired a local farmer to mow and bale the hay for one dollar per bale. Well, the neighbor's barn could hold only 500 bales and he wouldn't take or pay for any more. The yield was something over 1100 bales. I had no where to store the other 600 plus bales so I ended up selling them to the farmer who did the baling...for 50 cents a bale. So I ended up loosing nearly a couple hundred dollars on the deal. by the way, hay here is real cheap. it brings between 1.50 and 2.50 per bale depending on the season.

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