Posted by Bryce Frazier on June 21, 2014 at 10:38:59 from (67.142.182.25):
Well, I was just down talking with the neighbor, and he told me that he wanted to "restore" his grandfathers hay meadows, back to working order.
I told him that if he were to go through and pull the trees out (no bigger than 4 inch) that it probably wouldn't be that hard to get the 3 fields back in order.
He asked me if I would be willing to farm it, and what I thought it would cost!! Basically, I told him, you want a nice meadow, I want to farm, if I went and footed all of the money/costs/labor/machinery, and did all of the farming, I would keep and sell all of the hay, and you would get your nice looking meadows. He said that would be fine (he is very rich, so money isn't really a problem!)
There are 3 fields, and together they MIGHT be 20 acres. I told him that in the fall I could plow it all under, and disc it, and then disc/harrow/seed in the spring. He thought that it would be pretty cool to put oats in the first year, and then let them go back to natural hay meadows after that!!
Soooo, where do I start? I told him I would look into costs, such as how much of what kind of seed would I need? What would I do (if any) for fertilizer? What does a 80lb bale sell for? How many bales would I get? Could I actually turn a profit? Basically, I was just hoping you guys could maybe tell me where to start, and give some good info!! Bryce
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