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Re: 1 of 10 dead end jobs!!!
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Posted by txgrn on July 21, 2005 at 17:22:24 from (209.151.116.58):
In Reply to: 1 of 10 dead end jobs!!! posted by Dixieland on July 21, 2005 at 15:56:22:
Well there's more to it than that. I just got my "High Quality Hay Management" booklet from the local A&M University and I read how much fert it took to grow a ton of hay which has to be replaced annually if you don't want the field to peter out....which is what the field next door has been doing for the past 5 years....Down from 10 ton per acre over the season to 2. Well pilgrims, at todays prices, the price of the fert (that's fertilizer alone; nothing else; nothing;) required to grow a ton of hay cost as much as you can get for the ton of hay on the local market. Only way I can get any kind of return it to feed it to cows and sell them having raised them on leased land @ $10 per acre per year. You ain't gonna get there from here. Only (almost)people in ag are retired people like me that do it for the fun of it. Course we could be spending our money on fishing, or lake houses, motor homes, travel, hotrod cars, etc. Ok you big guys, sound off about all the money you are REALLY making....I'm duckin the flak. I was out cutting hay yesterday, thinking about my return for my effort and investment and it reminded me of a guy I hired 25 years ago to cut my hay patch.....he was going to make a living on hay. Har Har. Had a new wife and baby and all the financial responsibilityes associated with that. He didn't even get one round completed and his rig broke down and my patch went to pot cause there was no one else to do it. Mark
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