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I have pretty much lost my first cutting of hay as far as being able to sell it. Black hay looks pretty good against a white snow bank but not so good on a truck. I am interested in finding some cows to feed it to this summer and then sell them in the fall.

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cowboyup
 
Thanks Faster Horses, I'm glad your hay went up good. Sometimes the rain just doesn't seem to come at the right time.

I can't really afford to lose the income as my bankers teeth are getting really sharp but instead of just giving up I want to maybe try a different approach. I know that in some parts of the country they are having to sell cattle because they don't have any grass and one more guy bidding on them might get them just a little bit more and in the meantime save two outfits.
 
I know your a ways into MT by your posts, I'm wonderin' how far?
Do not; I repeat; do not think bad hay is no hay!
You guys run a respectable outfit, and something will work out.
Do you have to own the cattle to make it work?
P.M. please
 
Cowboyup- it is dry in so many areas not too far from you-lots of western SD,Colorado,-don't know for certain where you are in MT,but do know there are lots of barns having special pr. and cow sales. Kearney NE is having one with lots of fall calving cows. Would fall calvers work or is the winter too sereve? Hope it all work for you -you are good people :!:
 
we are selling our junk hay for 85 dollars/ ton so I do not see your black hay as being of no value.

do some looking, try www.hayexchange.com look at those prices, and put in an honest assesment of your crop.... it will move!
 
If you have hay to sell do not undervalue it. It is probably worth more than you think it is. The conditions here in North central S.D. continue to deteriate. The price of hay is going up by the day. If we don't get some precip in the next month there will be a pile of cows heading to town.

I am East of the Missouri River and we have pastures that have had less than 6 inches in the last calender year so the drought has been here for a little while now. It can go away any day now. I see a lot of pastures including most of ours that will not hold cows more than 3-4 weeks under current conditions.
 
Is this drought ever going to end?

Then for cowboyup to have his hay quality compromised because of
too much rain, really stings. Weather seems to be in such extremes
any more, it is hard to know what to count on.

We had such a good start here this spring. Best start for a long time, and then NOTHING. I think we are at the 6 or 7" mark for the year as well.
 
Two nights ago we had a fairly good rain - hard for 15 minutes or so, then a long , slow drizzle for about two hours. Then, yesterday afternoon, a pretty good drencher for ten minutes - then a l-o-o-o-n g, slow , fine drizzle all night and all day today off and on. It has stopped now, but the clouds are completely down on the ground and the Front Range (Rockies) are totally covered with clouds. I don't know what it is doing in the higher elevations, but this has been a great, soft, "female" rain. The Anasazi (Old One's) Indians in about 1000AD called that kind of rain, "Female" and that saved their civilization - until a killer drought of many, many years forced them to seek other territories. Hang in there, guys - it isn't THAT bad yet, and let's pray it breaks soon!

DOC HARRIS
 
Its pouring into this part of the state of Illinois. It has been a long time again without significant rain. I have a 75 acre field waiting for it to rain so we can plant some millet. The field is so dry a drill couldn't even plant anything in it. So not it just sits there all straw collored from the barley that we had to graze off of it. The corn is curling like crazy right now and it is in tasselling stage too. If we don't get rain soon there won't be a corn crop around here this year except in the irrigated fields. The pivots are running every 3 days trying to keep up. So hot and no humidity is a very strange thing indeed... Getting ready to call one of the Ethanol plants and start bringing in distillers grains to stretch my pastures. Hoping for a break or a huge ralley in corn so I can sell the 5k bushels I have in storage to feed more cows.

Figure I have 3 more weeks of pasture if it doesn't rain...Well, probably 4... Oh well, I warned the boss, if it gets that bad it is time to ship the older cows.
 
:) :-) :D I wish it was pouring... I was out last Sunday night, had some well problems and it was 3am or so and the cows were bellering. The sky openend up for about 2 minutes and the rain, and I mean this, burned when it hit the skin it was so hot. It was like being in a steam shower. I think we got .05 of an inch. At least the well problem is patched up for now.
 
DOC HARRIS said:
The Anasazi (Old One's) Indians in about 1000AD called that kind of rain, "Female" and that saved their civilization - until a killer drought of many, many years forced them to seek other territories. Hang in there, guys - it isn't THAT bad yet, and let's pray it breaks soon!

DOC HARRIS
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Maybe we should have just left this old prairie country to the Indians- they seemed to have the best way of handling it-- Moved yearly to good wintering spots where the chinooks kept the grass clear--times of drought or major prairie fires they'd just load up the dogs, horses, kids and house and move to better country....
 
FH: What I meant to say was 6 incehes in the last 12 months. If we would have had 6 inches since Jan 1 we would be dry but what I would call liveable.
 
WB I think I've got close to 6 inches of rain in the last month. I got close to an inch and a half the night of the sixth. So much for high desert climate. I finally managed to bale some of the lighter stuff, it was pretty borderline wet and real ugly. Think I'll go fishing with sw.
Jigs, I wish we could get 85 dollars for our good stuff, 65 is pretty much top dollar around here except for horse hay. We are so far from the market that freight knocks the hell out of the price. Three years ago I had a lot of interest in my hay out of southern CO but with freight they couldn't haul it that far and that was before diesel went to three bucks.
Rowdy Ranch, I've not tried fall calving my self but we raised the occasional whoops calf allright. The wind here on the flats would be pretty tough on them as we don't have much cover but if the price was right I would get them through somehow even if I had to put Carharts on the whole bunch.
Thanks everybody for the kind words and advice. Those of you who need rain I hope you get it. You could always hire me to cut your hay for you, works everytime here :wink:
If anybody hears what cows are going for I would sure like to Know.

Thanks
cowboyup
 
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Hay report http://www.agjournalonline.com/market.html
 
Pairs up here arent bringing big bucks too bad you couldnt get them across the border cowboyup you could likely make quite a bit on them keeping htem for the summer and selling them in the fall.
 
Faster horses said:
Is this drought ever going to end?

Then for cowboyup to have his hay quality compromised because of
too much rain, really stings. Weather seems to be in such extremes
any more, it is hard to know what to count on.

We had such a good start here this spring. Best start for a long time, and then NOTHING. I think we are at the 6 or 7" mark for the year as well.
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Just goes to the old saying "if ya don't like the weather in Montana, wait 5 minutes or drive 3 miles...it'll change!"...no kidding!! Got dumped on again yesterday....had a heck of a drive coming home as the water was standing on the highway from harrison to home....brother-in-law across the highway got NOTHING!!!
Go figure!!!
:roll: :roll:
Sure hope you folks get some relief soon, FH!!!
 

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