Hi Kevin! Sometimes it's just what a person really wants or needs that dictates their choices. Even when I wasn't really paying much attention to my "inputs" and "outputs" I still got enough hay to meet my needs (feeding a few horses), so I didn't really see the need to pay more money to produce more hay than I needed. Plus, back then I was paying somebody to make hay off my land for me, and was paying by the bale, so lots of "extra" bales got pretty expensive since I didn't really have any interest in trying to sell hay (strangely, you'd be surprised how small and light the bales were you were paying by the bale haha, but hardly anybody in my area was doing small squares, so I was kind of short on options).
When it became impossible to get anybody to do my hay in small squares, I started to collect some older equipment to do most of the work myself, and this is when I started to take more interest in the process and to take more pride in producing better quality hay. I now have enough hay that I can meet my own needs; give some to my wife's uncle for his pony; and some to my brother for their 2 horses (in return for their help in making hay). By next year I will probably start producing more hay than I can use and hope to be able to sell at least a couple hundred bales to help offset the cost of fertilizer, which has been a pretty big investment to get to this point.
Another pic of the last, small load coming in. Me and my 2 boys as well as my father in law.
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