Just bought 70 acres - now what?

[Redfox]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( For good "hay" in the NW you actually grow alfalfa. It is like green wheat. It is a crop that takes years to get going well. It gets 5$ a bale or so.

The locals cut and bale the pasture growth around here and make "grass hay" since alfalfa and the grass that your pasture grows are entirely different. The grass hay is getting about half as much or 2.50$ per bale.

Grass hay is just a guy letting his lawn get too long. Alfalfa is an irrigated, fertilized, planted, crop for high nutrition feed. I suspect that was what the comment was about. )</font>

I spoke to the old owner. The hay field was seeded as a mixture of various grass, clover, and timothy. He says it fetches about $2.50 a small bale in the local market.

 

[Varmintmist]

Grass hay in PA at 2.50 a bale is some OK stuff, or he was one of the few that got his hay in the last 2 years and was able to get whatever he wanted out of it. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif If the market is about the same as out here then he is 25-50 cents higher than the norm.

Sounds like horse hay that he was small square bailing.

At a guess its timothy, orchard grass, fescue, and whatever clover blew in. Clover is not great in horse hay because of dust and if there is too much then the field needs to be turned and reseeded.

Pasture can and will have, clover, grasses, multiflora rose and general weeds. It can be cut and sold as "hay" but it is just bailed green stuff.

 

[Varmintmist]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( </font><font color="blueclass=small">( <font color="blue"> Buy in the spring and sell in the fall. </font> )</font>

Buy high and sell low ?? )</font>

Buy little and sell big. Let them do the weed eating, then sell them for meat.

Or feed them hay through the winter and sell in the spring.

Or sell most in the fall and grain one all winter and kill it in the spring.

Or any combination that makes beef for you. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Nasty135]

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