Hay and Alfalfa prices way down

[valley ranch]

Alfalfa Cubes are at this moment $150 a ton, last year they were twice that. Thank God for the abundance of snow and rain we've had in the west.

Indians have most of the water, during the drought they were asking a very high price for their water, so many farmers didn't plant and the price doubled.

 

[so lucky]

I was just noticing around here yesterday, that the hay harvest seems to be huge this year. In fields that normally produce 3 or 4 big bales of hay, there seem to be about 3 times that amount. It's a beautiful sight, in late evening, seeing the hay bales in the rolling fields, everything so peaceful.

 

[Smart Red]

Many farmers mowed the first cutting of alfalfa around the 20th of May. That's nearly unheard of around here! Usually it is the first full week in June when farmers assert "it NEVER rains".

That should mean there will be four cuttings of alfalfa this year and that first cutting was beautiful and leafy -- without all the long stems.

 

[seedcorn]

Never listen to farmers when it comes to rain. In spring, too much rain, can't get in fields. In summer, it never rains-drought..... Meanwhile it's a normal spring and they catch some rain every couple of weeks. Funny lot.

 

[Smart Red]

Don't listen to them with any more assurance than I do the weather prognosticators. We were supposed to have rain every day this past Saturday through Wednesday. Nil, nada, nothing until 2.5 inches Tuesday night. Bright, sunny (hot) day today.

 

[secuono]

We had too much rain here and most are behind on making hay.