Re: What would you do?

Posted by bc on June 17, 2009 at 16:21:32 from (69.148.27.75):

In Reply to: What would you do? posted by TJH72 on June 16, 2009 at 19:19:47:

I didn't hear you say she was griping about the rain. Half is half no matter what and she pressured you to cut before you normally would have. The rain goes with the territory. You did the best you can. Now if she is griping, then you can cut her loose if don't need the business or the hay or the stress. It doesn't take more than a paragraph to write up a basic share agreement and you don't warrant anything including hay quality, timing, # of cuts, cut and bale on your schedule and not hers, etc. If she is really griping and/or wants an adjustment then no one else will want to cut her hay either cause no one can make her happy. I wouldn't stand in the way if she wanted someone else to cut it.

You didn't say if this is alfalfa, brome, or prairie hay, etc. The only thing late brome or prairie does that got wet is lose a little protein. My horses eat anything for hay and roughage. I put a protein tub out for the winter anyway and we feed some grain some times so I'm not worried about protein. I'm last on the list/low man of the totem pole with our brome cutter/baler. Prime cutting time is June 1st. He probably won't get to it till after wheat harvest and sometime in July. Lose a little protein but my mustangs and burros eat anything and don't waste much so what the hay. Alfalfa can lose some leaves and stuff so you definitely have to be on the ball with alfalfa.

We just got 4" of rain and hail monday night. The wheat was about a week or so away from cutting. Now it is knocked down and it probably won't mature for couple weeks now. What wasn't knocked down by the hail will have less test weight. I left the hail insurance price up about $7 a bushel and it is at 5.80 now. There is a chance we might come out ahead with the hail insurance. Go figure. There has been other times where insurance paid better than if there was no crop damage. The bummer is that just a few miles north or south there wasn't much hail damage.

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