There are more and more small farms hiring out custom harvesting of both silage and dry hay. There tends to be a limit the big custom guys can handle on a timely basis so depending where you are at you may still need to have your hay making and silo filling equipment to get done when the crop is ready. Small scale silo filling equipment is getting harder to find at least for high quality equipment. A person could open a regional farm newspaper 30 years ago and find most dairy region dealers having dozens of used pull-type forage harvesters each. I don't know that there is a dozen or two total pull-type in New York for sale at the dealers nowadays. Fiddling with machinery seemed like an necessary evil for most dairy farms years ago as they were more comfortable with the livestock end or the business. I knew extremely few dairymen that were comfortable with all aspects of the dairy farm business. Back to the subject at hand I kind of wonder if things got to a point where if some custom guys were forced out of business for any number of reasons what the clients would do to get their work done. With the price of milk where it is at I would hate to go to my lender about rebuilding my silo filling lineup especially with good value units being scarce. Take it one step at a time I guess.
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