I'll agree with Casecollector. I'm from northwest Iowa too only a couple of counties east of you. You guys in Sioux county can grow some tremendous crops including hay with all the manure you have available to you along with well drained soil that alfalfa likes. The problem we have here in Iowa is too much humidity. First cutting in the spring/summer puts out a lot of tons but 80-90 percent humidity doesn't give the hay much time to dry before evening when the dew comes back on again. As I understand you do have a good hay auction in Rock Valley so that's to your advantage on the pricing side of things. Push a realistic pencil to it first before you make the move. If you can find a local cattle producer who will come and HARVEST IT ON TIME and will PAY YOU ON TIME you will have a better chance of making it work. CHOOSE YOUR CUSTOMER WISELY. I had cash hay on some sandy ground for awhile and it possibly paid almost as well as corn or beans would on that sand, but getting the darned stuff baled without rain was almost impossible. Then one time a cash customer said he would cut and bale and haul it and hand me a check. He was so late coming to cut the second cutting the alfalfa stems had died and it was leafing out at the base of the plants. I called him repeatedly and left messages on his machine but he never came. I just couldn't get ahold of him. I finally called in a cattle feeder neighbor who came and baled the dry stems and used it for bedding. The next day after the hay was hauled away the first guy came to cut it. He chewed my rear end chewed for selling it out from under him. Oh yes, then there was the customer who didn't pay me for a year......
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