Hay score!

[Pony]

Got some lovely second cutting alfalfa as well as a beautiful alfalfa/clover that "flash dried" on one of our hottest days here, for $3/bale.

Bonus: Since we don't have storage for a lot of hay, I told the neighbor I'd buy another 60 bales if he'd hang on to it for me, and I'd give him an extra twenty-five cents a bale to store it. VERY nice neighbor, and since he has the space, he said, "Sure."

[Minelson]

Love Love Love that hay score feeling!!! Woo-hoo! I'm waiting or cooler weather to buy mine.

[Donna1982]

Good for you we cant find anything like that around here.

[Pony]

I'm just relieved to have it taken care of. It's been so darned dry, I wonder if anyone is going to get a third cutting this year.

[jordan]

Yeah, our field "flash" dried the other day too! I have never seen them rake and bale the same day here before! The whole field - cut, raked and baled within 24 hours!
I want winter!!!!
Lois

[noeskimo]

I can see me now,this winter-
Stranger: Hey man I got some really good stuff.It's Nebraskan.I can do you a good roll,it's FINE STUFF.
Me: Why are you wearing those baggy pants and covered with tats?
Stranger: Well I used to be a drug dealer. but I switched to selling hay. There's more money in it.

[Pony]

Originally Posted by noeskimo

I can see me now,this winter-
Stranger: Hey man I got some really good stuff.It's Nebraskan.I can do you a good roll,it's FINE STUFF.
Me: Why are you wearing those baggy pants and covered with tats?
Stranger: Well I used to be a drug dealer. but I switched to selling hay. There's more money in it.

Oh, man, I snorted water out my nose! LOL!

[Minelson]

Originally Posted by noeskimo

I can see me now,this winter-
Stranger: Hey man I got some really good stuff.It's Nebraskan.I can do you a good roll,it's FINE STUFF.
Me: Why are you wearing those baggy pants and covered with tats?
Stranger: Well I used to be a drug dealer. but I switched to selling hay. There's more money in it.

LOL!!!

[Oat Bucket Farm]

Originally Posted by noeskimo

I can see me now,this winter-
Stranger: Hey man I got some really good stuff.It's Nebraskan.I can do you a good roll,it's FINE STUFF.
Me: Why are you wearing those baggy pants and covered with tats?
Stranger: Well I used to be a drug dealer. but I switched to selling hay. There's more money in it.

OMG, I was just joking with my mother about this very same thing yesterday afternoon. Pretty soon you will get stopped on the street by a guy in a big over coat and he will say, "You wanna buy some hay?" He'll open his coat and on the inside, insetead of watches and such, he'll have sprigs of different kinds of hay. "I got the good stuff," he'll say. "Second cut alfalfa, nice and leafy."

And then the FDA can start raiding hay farmers too.

We found some hay too, through a guy at the little grocery store here in town. Sm, square bales of alfalfa/grass mix, 10.00 a bale. And the sad thing was, we were happy to find it.

[eclipchic]

You guys are tempting me to load up a moving van with our hay and take it west of here. Seriously I've got tons of the stuff and its not moving fast enough for my taste at $3.00/bale.

[prairiedog]

Bring it on we just had to pay 10 dollars a bale for some last night.

[Pony]

Originally Posted by Oat Bucket Farm

We found some hay too, through a guy at the little grocery store here in town. Sm, square bales of alfalfa/grass mix, 10.00 a bale. And the sad thing was, we were happy to find it.

OBF, how far are you from here? It may well be worth your while to drive east and pick up some hay.

[Oat Bucket Farm]

I am about six hours from you Pony. I wish I was a whole lot closer.

[Pony]

Originally Posted by Oat Bucket Farm

I am about six hours from you Pony. I wish I was a whole lot closer.

Me, too, for a lot of reasons.

Re: the Hay, though. Would it be worth it for you to drive this far to save $7 a bale?

[crazygoatgal]

Originally Posted by noeskimo

I can see me now,this winter-
Stranger: Hey man I got some really good stuff.It's Nebraskan.I can do you a good roll,it's FINE STUFF.
Me: Why are you wearing those baggy pants and covered with tats?
Stranger: Well I used to be a dealer. but I switched to selling hay. There's more money in it.

I am in a rec center and everyone looked at me because I was laughing so hard, especially when I read that Pony shot water out of her nose. You guys are a riot!!!

[julieq]

We just locked in ten tons at 8.00 per bale for second cutting, which is a decent price for quality hay now around here (I guess). I'm guessing these are about 80 to 90 lbs each.

3.00 per bale sure sounds better!

[crazygoatgal]

This is in no way to be one up on anyone, but to share a blessing. I have a hay guy who sells me 1st cut organic hay, delivered, and stacked for me at $3.50 a bale. Now he will have to charge me $4.00 since everything has gone up in price. And if I don't have the money, he waits for the payment and still delivers. He's had to wait months sometimes. I am truly blessed and so grateful. .

[Oat Bucket Farm]

Originally Posted by Pony

Me, too, for a lot of reasons.

Re: the Hay, though. Would it be worth it for you to drive this far to save $7 a bale?

Problem is, I only have a minivan for hauling hay. Four to six bales is the maximum I can fit in there. I'm not sure I would save any by the time I counted in the cost of gas just to pick up four to six bales. If I could get a horse trailer full or something like that, then it might save me some money. Then again, I would have to put gas in whatever vehicle was big enough to pull a horse trailer loaded with hay.

[Pony]

Originally Posted by crazygoatgal

I am in a rec center and everyone looked at me because I was laughing so hard, especially when I read that Pony shot water out of her nose. You guys are a riot!!!

Yup. We're hilarious AND we have clean sinuses.

[crazygoatgal]

Thanks Pony, you did it again.