Great video! Really well explained, totally agree. Interesting nuances region to region - in New England we’re a net hay importer for small squares, and few enough people are making them that they almost feel on the tipping point of being a value added product. It’s an interesting mix of a commodity that has specialty status - and like you said, if you make a good product and people get to know you, you can start to be a driver of your own prices while keeping a general eye on “what is hay going for in my area”. Anyway, glad to see you having success at it! Hope winter’s treating you well.
Great video. I'm coming from europe, austria and were also making small hay bales on our 5 acre meadow. Some of the hay we feed to our two horses and some we sell for 4 euro (a little bit more than 4 dollar) each. The bales are about 18 kilogram. How heavie are your bales? Greetings Niklas
This video is great. I just started selling some of my grandpa's hay and I have sold around 150 bales of brome for 10$ each. From seeing your video I might try and bring some hay to the local sale barn.
7 years ago we (my Son and I) ceased planting row crops) And converted to Hay only....... The line of progression went from selling single 4x5 rounds(1000 of them) to converting the Rounds into small squares (almost 50000 a year) sold to National farm supply stores in our region... Obviously The Variety we grow is desired..... We are located in the South, so our variety does well in the climate...... I have a Channel but it is more an after thought, than a fore thought...................
11 foot. I can comfortably haul 100 smalls, but I could do more. Just depends on how many layers I wanna stack by hand. If we’re talking big bales, I’ve put as many as 8 3x3 on it
Great video! Really well explained, totally agree. Interesting nuances region to region - in New England we’re a net hay importer for small squares, and few enough people are making them that they almost feel on the tipping point of being a value added product. It’s an interesting mix of a commodity that has specialty status - and like you said, if you make a good product and people get to know you, you can start to be a driver of your own prices while keeping a general eye on “what is hay going for in my area”.
Anyway, glad to see you having success at it! Hope winter’s treating you well.
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Great video. I'm coming from europe, austria and were also making small hay bales on our 5 acre meadow. Some of the hay we feed to our two horses and some we sell for 4 euro (a little bit more than 4 dollar) each. The bales are about 18 kilogram. How heavie are your bales?
Greetings Niklas
Right around the same weight as yours
This video is great. I just started selling some of my grandpa's hay and I have sold around 150 bales of brome for 10$ each. From seeing your video I might try and bring some hay to the local sale barn.
7 years ago we (my Son and I) ceased planting row crops) And converted to Hay only....... The line of progression went from selling single 4x5 rounds(1000 of them) to converting the Rounds into small squares (almost 50000 a year) sold to National farm supply stores in our region... Obviously The Variety we grow is desired..... We are located in the South, so our variety does well in the climate...... I have a Channel but it is more an after thought, than a fore thought...................
How long is your flatbed on your dodge and how many bales can you haul comfortably on it?
11 foot. I can comfortably haul 100 smalls, but I could do more. Just depends on how many layers I wanna stack by hand. If we’re talking big bales, I’ve put as many as 8 3x3 on it
How many bales of hay do you make each year?
The last two years it was around 2,000 of my own. This year I hope to be north of 5000