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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5057401" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>I wish there were an easy solution... I just don't see how a landowner can make up the input cost for annual hay crops, when fescue yields 2 or 3 cuttings per year (and the ability to background graze in late Sept or early Oct in the drier years where a 3rd cutting isn't feasible. We get 2.2 to 2.5 bales (1200lb bales) per acre on the first cutting on average. Another 1.8 on 2nd cutting. At $60 per bales, that's $240 per acre yield. Not counting the value of 3rd cutting or background grazing cattle.</p><p></p><p>I do a LOT for wildlife... plant supplemental wildlife life plots, add clover to my fescue fields, limit cattle numbers to well under carrying capacity, rotate cattle to leave blocks ungrazed and stockpile forage during the winter. Some of those things end up being cost neutral, some cost me a LOT of money. With the cost of fuel, labor, fertilizer, equipment, etc, it's hard for us to even break even on our farms.</p><p></p><p>But mother nature is the real killer.... get a really early spring and the hayfields jump in mid April which attracts nesting hens, combined with a really wet late spring/early summer causing hay to be cut late, and it's a disaster for the turkeys.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5057401, member: 2805"] I wish there were an easy solution... I just don't see how a landowner can make up the input cost for annual hay crops, when fescue yields 2 or 3 cuttings per year (and the ability to background graze in late Sept or early Oct in the drier years where a 3rd cutting isn't feasible. We get 2.2 to 2.5 bales (1200lb bales) per acre on the first cutting on average. Another 1.8 on 2nd cutting. At $60 per bales, that's $240 per acre yield. Not counting the value of 3rd cutting or background grazing cattle. I do a LOT for wildlife... plant supplemental wildlife life plots, add clover to my fescue fields, limit cattle numbers to well under carrying capacity, rotate cattle to leave blocks ungrazed and stockpile forage during the winter. Some of those things end up being cost neutral, some cost me a LOT of money. With the cost of fuel, labor, fertilizer, equipment, etc, it's hard for us to even break even on our farms. But mother nature is the real killer.... get a really early spring and the hayfields jump in mid April which attracts nesting hens, combined with a really wet late spring/early summer causing hay to be cut late, and it's a disaster for the turkeys. [/QUOTE]
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