Enviromentalists and hay

[M's Nacona]

Those durned earth freaks have caused another disaster! With all thier whinnin' about hallyburtin and our addiction to foreign oil, rumor has it that 100,000 acres in California's big valleys was plowed up from alfalfa & grass hay then planted in corn for biofuel. I gotta tell ya boys there's more fallow land than you'd imagine. Would any farmer worth his tractor plow up his' alfalfa stand during a drought or is somebody lookin' to drive up the price of hay. That's our trouble out here, either the neocons or the dammed creeks have plugged up the flow. It's a little different out west where money walks and the rest of us get 8ullshirt talks. Either way my ponies will need feedin' twice a day and I'm willin' to haul as far as needed and when it comes to the ponies I'll need to sell some a the good ones I been holdin' back. Y'all let me know if you got some good hay and need some big nice mounts. I got deep chested long legged younguns with a hundred thousand miles to go and I got some beauties that'll take the ol' lady and kids up and down the road without a hitch any time you ask it. There's a good bunch of em I wouldn't sell for gold but for reasonable hay I'll doer. Warning if you buy mama one of the well trained beauts you'll need some viagra. If you like I'll drive'em to you and ride'em for you while you decide. Such is the life of a man caught between the hippies and the NeoCons, I long for the days when there was more than 1 oil company and I could believe my government.
M's Nacona

 

[Denny]

I'm sure it was a financial decision on the farmers part most likely made more money with less work.We plant corn most years to chop for silage as it breaks up the hayground and the work load gets spread out.

Corn after alfalfa won't need alot of commercial fertilizer so it was most likely profitable.

 

[Northern Rancher]

There's a man it would be fun to trade horses with he's definately got the gift of the gab lol. Biodiesel is going to turn out to be one of the biggest flops of the century-just a gut feeling on my part.

 

[Carter]

Lots of hay in this part of the world this yr. In the local paper Sunday there were around 25 ads with hay for sale -fertilized, no weeds not rained on etc. but it is still a little high in my opinion. My friend is trying to sell 200 round bales that was fertilized and he is asking $35 a roll and might take $30 if someone would take it all and he said he is just trying to get his fert and baling out of it.

 

[Draggin "N"]

I know little about the oil business, except they are breaking me at the pump. I also know that the alcohol made with all the corn that is being grown will be sent to the OIL COMPANIES to mix with gasoline or Diesel fuel. So if I have this strait..we are selling OIL Companies ..the alcohol that is susposed to help relieve our high fuel prices! My question is Why would OIL COMPANIES that have proved that they will gouge us to the highest possiable profit point for them, ever cut prices because we sold them alcohol...unless there is MORE profit in it for them.....??? Not gonna happen, is my guess.