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just got 1st cutting done

tlakota

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I just got all my 1st cutting alfalfa put up and will start on 2nd here in a week or so. Off of 1 field of 140 acres i got a little over 3 ton an acre. Im going to use this to feed to my cows for the winter and sell everything else. I also put up one quarter of new alfalfa with a very fine stem and it tested at about 140 RFV. Im looking for a market for it, and wondering if anyone knows of someone that needs some quality hay. I plan on building my hay sides on my flatbed so i can haul if need be.
 

Shelly

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Wish we could say the same! Only about 1000 acres or so to go. :x Then we'll start all over again. Double :x !
 

3words

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Shelly said:
Wish we could say the same! Only about 1000 acres or so to go. :x Then we'll start all over again. Double :x !
If you were all done Shelly,then what would you do :roll: ?You would be complaining you were bored then :wink: .
 

Tap

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tlakota said:
I just got all my 1st cutting alfalfa put up and will start on 2nd here in a week or so. Off of 1 field of 140 acres i got a little over 3 ton an acre. Im going to use this to feed to my cows for the winter and sell everything else. I also put up one quarter of new alfalfa with a very fine stem and it tested at about 140 RFV. Im looking for a market for it, and wondering if anyone knows of someone that needs some quality hay. I plan on building my hay sides on my flatbed so i can haul if need be.

Congratulations on your hay crop. You should be rewarded for it.

How are your cattle doing now? I would think the hay you have to sell should take a bite out of the difficulties you had with your cattle this spring. So it goes in the ranching business.

We are getting close to a ton to the acre on our haycrop, but we have almost no alfalfa left either. The freight would kill us from your area to here.
 

tlakota

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oh cows are doing good...may 20th was one of the best days of my life. They went to pasture! Ive got 2 pastures rented and one hasnt been touched yet so im gonna rotate them to that one here in a couple days.

But my alfalfa has been the most learning experience. Last year i had about 500 bales of 2nd cutting alfalfa. It tested in at 180 RFV. I could have sold it rite out of the field at $80/ton but figured i would wait because no hay was around. It got to be winter and i started getting nervous and i ended up telling a guy that if he took it for $75/ton he could have it. In the mean time i ran an ad in the greensheet and it was published after i already had it sold. Im not lieing i had over 60 calls on it in a couple days. People were hurting bad around here. I ended up selling it and the guy decided after everything was hauled to his place that he wanted to take a 1% off for moisture absorbed into the bale. It was a huge deal but the alfalfa already shrunk down about 100-150 since the summer so i was getting both bad ends of the deal. I promise i wont ever do business with him again. I had a few guys after the fact tell me they would have giving me over 100/ton for it. There was some alfalfa just 20 miles from here at an auction for 115 ton. Oh the lessons they dont teach in school.
 

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