I suppose I understand the hay guy turning down your $70 per ton. What I don't understand is the reasoning behind trying to compare the value of corn to grass hay. It's easy to put a value on corn because it is a readily "marketable" crop. As you stated, cows can't live on corn alone, in fact, they don't need corn at all. They HAVE to have roughage. Trying to compare roughage value to corn vlue makes no sense when you're talking about feeding cows. Now I'm talking about brood cows....not finishing cattle. In order to determine a "fair" value for roughage, consider how many pounds of hay it takes to put on one pound of gain or look at it as how many pounds of hay does it take to "maintain" a cow. That would be somewhere around 20-25 pounds a day depending upon the size of the cow. You can quite easily figure what it will cost you to feed a cow. The "value" of that roughage can then be worked out between the buyer and the seller. You obviously thought the junk you bought last year had "value" at $130 per ton. He offered you good grass hay for $120.00. So absolutely, I would have turned down your $70.00. You didn't want it and you didn't need it. You just thought maybe you had an opportunity. Turn this around, if you had offered to sell HIM your good hay for $120 and he had offered you 70...........would you have been insulted?
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