Two years ago we had a real hard Easter freeze that knocked the first cutting of all the hay down to about a third of what is should of been, then a dry summer that made for no second cutting of anything. I mowed, raked and baled about 3 miles of water ways and diversion ditched on a neighbor's place, baled up all the corn stalks I could, ect,,, People around here were giveing $100 for anything that looked like a bale of good hay, $75 for rolled up ceder trees off CRP ground. I was pretty worried about it, then I asked a buddy of mine if he had enough hay he said "sure, be a little short on cows come May but I will have hay." If you can't pencil out local hay, best advise I can give is cull like you haven't culled in years (I don't care how cute the wife thinks she is, what kinda calf did she raise?), roll corn stalks and then book soy hulls now if hay is that high now hulls will double about the first of the year and you can keep cows looking pretty good with them and corn stalks.
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