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OldDog/NewTricks

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A New shipment has just arrived!

Alfalfa 12.85 per bale
These are 114 pound bales. They are nice and 'leafy' with thin stem.

408-779-6621

Orchard/Alfalfa Blend
111 pound bales. The best of both worlds! $14.93 when purchased in blocks of 60

Edie Atkins
Express Hay & Tack Supply
(408) 779-6621 office, (408) 779-8657 fax
www.ExpressHay.com
'We Bring the Store to You!'
 
At that rate it would only cost about $870 to winter a $500 cow (not including trucking!).
2-4 cents a pound up here depending on supply / demand, although I realize that with small bales the equation tends to change a bit.
 
Thats $225 per ton. If that is what alfalfa is bringing, you can have all mine and I will haul my cows to the sales barn. In our area dairy quality alfalfa usualy brings $100 per ton and good prairie hay brings about $35 -$40 per ton. Its a little higher now with the long cold winter.
 
If you are trying to sell those bales for horse hay you could easly get that around my country. Up around Denver and the front range guys that where putting up little bales that only weight 40-50 lbs where getting $225-$285 dollars a ton last year. We sell 3x3 grass/alfalfa mix and we where getting $180 a ton for our horse quality hay. With some of our lower quality getting around $140-160 a ton. Now the high dollar hay was going to weekend farmers that had high paying jobs and they never blinked when they wrote the check out.
 
I paid $150 for triticale last year! :cry: But i didnt have to buy much! It has really come down around here though. There's a huge cubing outfit south of us in Delta that has more hay than you'd believe sitting under tarps. Something like 4 million dollars worth! :shock: That has driven the price down which is great if yer buying but not so great if you are a hay-farmer!
 
We just had 138 tons of 2nd cut Alfalfa delivered last week. The truckers were good enough to dodge the scales as the bales averaged 1960 lbs and they were a little overweight. The hay cost $75.00 at the ranch it came from and was on the truck 10 hrs one way. It was landed here for $138.20 per ton.
 
PureCountry said:
Even at $138.20/ton, with a 1200lb cow eating 2.5% of her weight, which would be 30lbs, that's $2.07/day!!! I hope you're doing something to make them pay good Dave.
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This is the most expensive hay we have ever bought. The mill shutting down out here eliminated the use of back-haul trucks. We have been using alfalfa as a supplement rather than grain to beef up the protien lacking in our local hay. If the gov. ever gets to joining the logging roads from here north and Vanderhoof south it will be a short 200 miles to good feed instead of the 440 miles it is roundabout.
Our feeding period runs from 135 to 175 days. The out of pocket cost for the balance of the year using our range licence is approx $11.00 per hd total. Also, our land cost is minimal compared to other parts of BC and definately Alberta.
 
gcreekrch said:
PureCountry said:
Even at $138.20/ton, with a 1200lb cow eating 2.5% of her weight, which would be 30lbs, that's $2.07/day!!! I hope you're doing something to make them pay good Dave.
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This is the most expensive hay we have ever bought. The mill shutting down out here eliminated the use of back-haul trucks. We have been using alfalfa as a supplement rather than grain to beef up the protien lacking in our local hay. If the gov. ever gets to joining the logging roads from here north and Vanderhoof south it will be a short 200 miles to good feed instead of the 440 miles it is roundabout.
Our feeding period runs from 135 to 175 days. The out of pocket cost for the balance of the year using our range licence is approx $11.00 per hd total. Also, our land cost is minimal compared to other parts of BC and definately Alberta.
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I never saw so many buttercups and scentless chamomile plants as were on my last trip to Vanderhoof. How do you keep the noxious weeds out of your hay supply? I like Alfalfa as a protein source here as well. I hear you on the land cost. We grow our Alfalfa on ground that my sister owns. Even in this economic downturn, offers of 5-10 thousand and acre are still heard of where it is.
 
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gcreekrch said:
PureCountry said:
Even at $138.20/ton, with a 1200lb cow eating 2.5% of her weight, which would be 30lbs, that's $2.07/day!!! I hope you're doing something to make them pay good Dave.
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This is the most expensive hay we have ever bought. The mill shutting down out here eliminated the use of back-haul trucks. We have been using alfalfa as a supplement rather than grain to beef up the protien lacking in our local hay. If the gov. ever gets to joining the logging roads from here north and Vanderhoof south it will be a short 200 miles to good feed instead of the 440 miles it is roundabout.
Our feeding period runs from 135 to 175 days. The out of pocket cost for the balance of the year using our range licence is approx $11.00 per hd total. Also, our land cost is minimal compared to other parts of BC and definately Alberta.
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I never saw so many buttercups and scentless chamomile plants as were on my last trip to Vanderhoof. How do you keep the noxious weeds out of your hay supply? I like Alfalfa as a protein source here as well. I hear you on the land cost. We grow our Alfalfa on ground that my sister owns. Even in this economic downturn, offers of 5-10 thousand and acre are still heard of where it is.
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About the only weed that thrives in this area is jackpines. :D There are a few that have showed up such as Buttercup and thistles but they don't seem to spread and eventually die out. We can and do have frost 365 days a year and most weeds are not compatible with that sort of climate. We did get some hay last fall with quite a bit of Rattlebox in it, this was fed on some sandy ground that we grow oats on for silage. Once weeds are wrapped in plastic they lose their ability to germinate when they are fed out.
This last hay is grown by a guy that manages to keep the weeds relatively under control.
 
It's funny how sometimes you think of a mill closing as only effecting the workers getting laid off. The ripples in the water are felt along way out aren't they?

It's interesting to hear about your details, everyone's situation is a little different.
 
In Michigan dairy hay, right now $130-150, beef quality $50-100 depending on quality. Extension says cost in 09' to put up quality alfalfa, all costs except trucking $105-120/ton.
 

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