Guest guest Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 WOW, I do know that there are truckers that buy hay from my x and other farmers around here and ship it to Florida. Although not fond of my x, I will admit he makes good hay. I use to say that if he was as anal about his marriage as he was about his hay, we would not have gotten a divorce. They do a lot of hay and straw and probably take off over 20,000 small square bales between hay and straw! Plus they also do some large round bales that are for the dairy cows. There is also a trucker that lives nearby that I use to do the export papers for him and he trucked hay to Kentucky. There is a couple that I know that race standardbreds and bought a house in Florida and take there horses down there all winter to be able to train all winter. They say hay is scarce in Florida because it is so dry and their hay bales they buy are compressed. I don't know how it does not go moldy but they say it does not. It gets shipped in from somewhere else too, cannot remember where from. There is a chemical that I know some farmers have used to dry their hay quicker but I personally would not feed that hay but I wonder if that is how they get the compressed hay dry enough to put it in bales like that. People here think that $4.00/ bale is expensive and they are nice heavy bales and the horse people are pretty picky here about their hay. We usually get three cuts of hay off of a field a year. Horse people usually want the first cut except maybe race horses. The second cut is usually too rich for most horses. Is that the small square bales that you pay that much for? We also feed large round bales here and that is what mine have out in the field. They are cheaper to feed based on a per pound price, but the horses waste more of it. Carolyn In a message dated 4/12/2011 5:36:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, foodfun@... writes: I pay $8.00 for straw, dont use it anymore it attracts flies in the barn. I pay $14.00 for alfalfa hay and am glad to get it.BeverlyTexas Re: Re: (and anyone interested) found a "new" gar...Velda, where do you live now? Wow $11 a bale for straw!!! My x sells hisfor around $2 a bale and some here sell them for $1 a bale. Hay is anotherstory but it is only $4 a bale. Some farmers here will give the straw away ifit is moldy to someone who will take it away.Carolyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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